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Robert Adams

Robert Adams, photographer, is known for images of the American West that both celebrate its natural beauty and document its exploitation. A writer as well as an artist, Adams’ many books include, Turning Back (2005), What We Bought (1995), Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values (1981), From the Missouri West (1980), and The New West (1974).

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Kiku Adatto

Kiku Adatto, scholar in residence at Harvard University’s Humanities Center, is the author of the recently released book, Picture Perfect: Life in the Age of the Photo Op. A scholar and commentator on American society and culture, her writings on culture, politics, and the media have appeared in the New York Times, New Republic, Forbes Media Critic, Commonwealth, and the photography journal, See.

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John Baldessari

John Baldessari, artist and educator, has explored the narrative potential of images and the associative power of language in paintings, photographs, film, video, site-specific installations, artist’s books, sculptures, drawings, prints, and multiples for five decades running. Retrospective exhibitions of his work have been organized by museums including the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, in 1981; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 1990; the Tate Modern, London; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in 2009. As a teacher from 1970–1988 at the California Institute of the Arts, and from 1996–2007 at the University of California, Los Angeles, Baldessari instructed and influenced generations of artists.

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Subhankar Banerjee

Subhankar Banerjee, photographer, educator, and activist, uses photography to raise awareness about issues that threaten the health and well-being of our planet. Since late 2000, he has focused his efforts on indigenous human rights and land conservation issues in the Arctic. His photographs have been exhibited in one-person and group exhibitions worldwide, and have been published in over one hundred magazines and newspapers internationally.

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Lois W. Banner

Lois W. Banner, professor of history and gender studies at the University of Southern California, is the author of Women in Modern America: A Brief History (1974), which is widely taught in women's history and studies classes. Her other books include: Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle (2003), In Full Flower: Aging Women, Power, and Sexuality (1992), American Beauty (1983), and Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Radical for Women's Rights (1979).

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Anthony Bannon

Anthony Bannon, seventh director of George Eastman House, the International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York, is the author of numerous publications including The Taking of Niagara: A History of the Falls in Photography (Media Study Buffalo, 1982).

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P. Bryn Benson

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Candice Bergen

Candice Bergen, actor, is known for her work in television and movies, including the TV series Murphy Brown (1988-98) and Boston Legal (2004-8), and feature films including The Sand Pebbles (1966), Carnal Knowledge (1971), Starting Over (1979), Ghandi (1982), and Sweet Home Alabama (2002). A winner of numerous Emmy and Golden Globe awards and an Oscar nominee, Bergen is also the author of Knock Wood, an autobiography published in 1984.

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Maurice Berger

Maurice Berger, senior research scholar at the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and senior fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, is author of eleven books on the subjects of American art, film, television, and the politics of race. He is currently organizing For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, a joint venture of the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution.

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Stewart Brand

Stewart Brand, co-founder and managing director of Global Business Network, is the president of The Long Now Foundation. Brand is well known for founding, editing and publishing the Whole Earth Catalog (1968-85), an unprecedented compendium of counterculture information and sources, which received the National Book Award in 1972. In 1985, he founded The WELL (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link), a prototypic computer teleconference system for the San Francisco Bay Area. Brand’s books include The Clock of the Long Now (1999) and The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT (1987).

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Leo Braudy

Leo Braudy, university professor and Bing Professor of English at the University of Southern California, is known for his cultural studies scholarship on celebrity, masculinity, and film. His books include (Oxford, 1986); From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity (Knopf, 2003); and On the Waterfront (British Film Institute, 2006), a study of the film's production and the post-war values it reflects.

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Lyric R. Cabral

Lyric R. Cabral, freelance photographer, journalist, and educator, uses photography to tell stories that are negated or misrepresented in the media. Cabral studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the International Center of Photography, where she was a recipient of the Jocelyne Benzakin Photojournalism Fellowship. In 2007, she received the Howard Chapnick Grant for the Advancement of Photojournalism for her co-creation of the B.R.I.D.G.E. Project in New York City, an initiative that brings instruction in photojournalism to youth in underserved communities.

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Sam Costello

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Robin Bachtler Cushman

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Michelle Anne Delaney

Michelle Anne Delaney, curator of the Photographic History Collection at Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, has organized exhibitions including The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington: Picturing the Promise (in collaboration with the National Museum of African American History & Culture), September 11: Bearing Witness to History, and Freeze Frame: Eadweard Muybridge’s Photography of Motion. Her first book, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Warriors: A Photographic History by Gertrude Käsebier, was published by Smithsonian/Harper Collins in 2007.

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David H. DeVorkin

David H. DeVorkin, curator of the history of astronomy at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, is an expert in the history of 20th century astronomy and astrophysics, and the origin and development of the space sciences. He is author of Henry Norris Russell: Dean of American Astronomers Princeton University Press, 2000), coauthor of The Hubble Space Telescope: Imaging Space and Time (National Geographic Society, 2008), and editor of Beyond Earth: Mapping the Universe (National Geographic Society, 2002).

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Elizabeth Edwards

Elizabeth Edwards, professor and senior research fellow at the University of the Arts London, works on the complex relationships between photographs, anthropology and history, in many different contexts from fieldwork to museum exhibitions. Previously, she was curator of photographs at Pitt Rivers Museum and lecturer in visual anthropology at University of Oxford.

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Wendy Ewald

Wendy Ewald, visiting artist at Duke's John Hope Franklin Center and the Center for Documentary Studies and at Amherst College, has collaborated with communities around the world for more than thirty years. She has received many honors including a MacArthur fellowship in 1992. Her work has been exhibited extensively in museums and galleries and was included in the 1997 Whitney Biennial. Secret Games, a retrospective of her work, was published in 2000, and her tenth book, To The Promised Land, was published in 2006.

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Hany Farid

Hany Farid, the David T. McLaughlin Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College, has pioneered the field of digital image forensics. He received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the University of Rochester, his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and was a postdoctoral fellow in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. He is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award, a Sloan Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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Giovanni G. Fazio

Giovanni G. Fazio, senior physicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has pioneered the development of gamma-ray and infrared astronomy. In 1984 he was selected as principal investigator for the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) experiment on the Spitzer Space Telescope, one of NASA's Great Observatories, which was launched in August 2003, and continues to produce spectacular new images of the infrared Universe.

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Aimee Fitzgerald

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Harvey Flad

Harvey Flad, emeritus professor of geography at Vassar College, has researched widely in areas that include cultural, historical, and social geography, landscape design history and aesthetics, land use policy and planning, urban and environmental history, historic preservation, and scenic evaluation. Winner of the 2003 Russel Wright Award for Environmentalism, Flad has lectured and written on the evolution of the environmental movement and on the influence of the Hudson River School painters on the awareness of the American landscape.

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Merry A. Foresta

Merry A. Foresta, director of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative since its inception in 2000, joined the Smithsonian Institution in 1977. Working first as an assistant curator for 20th-century art at the National Collection of Fine Arts (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum), she was named the museum's first curator of photography in 1983 and later became the senior curator of photography for the Smithsonian's International Art Museums Division. As the inaugural project of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative, Foresta authored At First Sight: Photography and the Smithsonian (2003), which features a broad sampling of photographs from collections throughout the institution.

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David Friend

David Friend, Vanity Fair's editor of creative development, served as Life magazine's director of photography during the 1990s. Friend, author of Watching the World Change: The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11 (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2006), has also won Emmy and Peabody Awards as an executive producer of the television documentary 9/11, which has aired in more than 140 countries.

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Haidy Geismar

Haidy Geismar, assistant professor of anthropology and museum studies at New York University, has worked with the Vanuatu Cultural Centre and National Museum since 2000. Her most recent project explored the life history of a collection of photographs made in 1914 in Vanuatu by the British anthropologist John Layard, and examined how their meaning changed when used over the years by anthropologists, diverse museums, and local communities.

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Frank H. Goodyear, III

Frank H. Goodyear, III, assistant curator of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of American Studies at the George Washington University, is author of Red Cloud: Photographs of a Lakota Chief (University of Nebraska Press, 2003) and Zaida Ben-Yusuf: New York Portrait Photographer (Merrell Publications, 2008).

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Greg Graham

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Diane Granito

Diane Granito, co-founder of Heart Gallery of America and adoption outreach specialist with the New Mexico Department of Children, Youth and Families, founded the Heart Gallery, an initiative that uses professionally made portraits of American foster children to help find them permanent family placements. The project is now active in over forty states and a national non-profit. Since its inception in 2001, Heart Gallery exhibitions have resulted in the adoption of hundreds of children.

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Andy Grundberg

Andy Grundberg, writer, curator, teacher, and arts consultant, is currently the administrative chair of photography at the Corcoran College of Art and Design. From 1981-1991, as a critic for the New York Times, he covered the rapid ascent of photography within the art world. Grundberg was director of The Friends of Photography in San Francisco (1992-1997), and founded the quarterly journal see. Exhibitions organized include Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946 (1987), Points of Entry: Tracing Cultures (1996), and In Response to Place: Photographs from The Nature Conservancy’s Last Great Places (2001). Publications include Crisis of the Real (1999), Mike and Doug Starn (1990), Alexey Brodovitch (1989), as well as numerous catalog essays for cultural institutions.

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David Haberstich

David Haberstich, associate curator of photography in the National Museum of American History’s Archives Center, has curated numerous photography exhibitions for the Smithsonian. He has taught at the University of Delaware; the University of Maryland, College Park; the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; and the Corcoran College of Art. Haberstich has published articles in History of Photography, Exposure, Criticism, Leonardo, and other journals, and contributed to The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Photography and The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Technology.

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Alvin Hall

Alvin Hall, president of Cooperhall Press, Inc., develops and conducts investment seminars and classes for financial service firms and regulatory organizations. Hall has also authored best-selling books on personal finance, including his most recent book You and Your Money. He has hosted a number of popular television series (including the award-winning Your Money or Your Life, 1999–2003), a radio series for the British Broadcasting Company (BBC), and makes regular appearances on TV and radio stations in the US and the UK commenting on financial matters.

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Von Hardesty

Von Hardesty, Ph.D., curator at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, serves in the Aeronautics Division. His publications include Epic Rivalry: The Inside Story of the Soviet and American Space Race; Milestones of Aviation; Great Aviators and Epic Flights; Air Force One: The Aircraft That Shaped the Modern Presidency; Lindbergh: Flight's Enigmatic Hero; Black Wings: Courageous Stories of African Americans in Aviation and Space (2008); Red Phoenix: The Rise of Soviet Air Power, 1941-1945, among others.

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Hugh Hefner

Hugh M. Hefner, founder, editor-in-chief, and chief creative officer of Playboy, the world's best-selling men's lifestyle magazine, has achieved many accomplishments. Hefner received the 1996 International Publishing Award from the International Press Directory in London, and in 1998, was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the American Society of Magazine Editors. In January 2002, Hefner received the Henry Johnson Fisher Award, the highest honor of the Magazine Publishers of America.

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Marvin Heiferman

Marvin Heiferman, guest curator of click! photography changes everything, is creative consultant at the Smithsonian Photography Initiative. His previous curatorial projects include, John Waters: Change of Life (New Museum, 2004), Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution (Exit Art, 2000), Fame After Photography (The Museum of Modern Art, 1999), Talking Pictures (International Center of Photography, 1994), Image World: Art and Media Culture (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1989), and The Family of Man, 1954-1984 (P.S. 1, 1984).

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Steven Heller

Steven Heller, co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author program and co-founder of the MFA in Design Criticism programs at the School of Visual Arts, was an art director at the New York Times for thirty-three years. He currently writes the "Visuals" column for the New York Times Book Review. He is contributing editor to Print, EYE, Baseline, and I.D. magazines, as well as the author and/or editor of over 120 books on design and popular culture.

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Amy Henderson

Amy Henderson, cultural historian at National Portrait Gallery, specializing in film, music, and media history, has written on topics ranging from opera soprano Geraldine Farrar to the idea of celebrity culture. Her publications include Exhibiting Dilemmas: Issues of Representation at the Smithsonian (1997); Red, Hot & Blue: A Smithsonian Salute to the American Musical (1996); and On the Air: Pioneers of American Broadcasting (1988). At the Portrait Gallery, Henderson has worked on exhibitions including The TIME of Our Lives, Champions of American Sport, and Hollywood Glamour Photographs.

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Zac Henderson

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Tatianna Hill

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Steve Hoffenberg

Steve Hoffenberg, director of consumer imaging research at Lyra Research Inc., is one of the world’s leading analysts covering digital imaging products and markets and has authored more than three hundred market research reports and articles. Lyra Research Inc. is a market research firm and trade publisher specializing in imaging industries.

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Bruce Hoffman

Bruce Hoffman, internationally recognized expert on terrorism, is a professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, and a senior fellow at the U.S. Military Academy’s Combating Terrorism Center, West Point, NY. Hoffman is editor-in-chief of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, the leading scholarly journal in the field, and the author of Inside Terrorism (1998, revised and updated in 2006).

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Ellen E. Hyatt

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Preminda Jacob

Preminda Jacob, associate professor of art history and theory at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), specializes in the social and political aspects of public visual culture. Her recent book, Celluloid Deities: The Visual Culture of Cinema and Politics in South India (Lexington Books, 2009), has an accompanying website, CelluloidDeities.com, that features over three hundred photos and three videos.

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Irene Jeruss

Irene Jeruss, photo editor and staff photographer for White Flower Farm in Connecticut, also works as a freelance garden photographer. She is a regular contributor to magazines, including Woman's Day Gardening & Deck Design, Connecticut Magazine, and Connecticut Home & Garden.

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Philippe Kahn

Philippe Kahn, chief executive officer of Fullpower Technologies, the world leader for mobile sensing technology, holds a master’s degree in mathematics and is the author of dozens of patents. Fullpower is Mr. Kahn’s fourth successful technology company. Additionally, he has received numerous technology and business awards including the 2002 International Imaging Association (I3A) Leadership Award and was selected as one of Byte Magazine’s twenty most important people in the history of the computer industry.

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Daile Kaplan

Daile Kaplan, vice president and director of photographs at Swann Galleries, Inc., New York City’s oldest specialty auction house, is a curator, an author, and photographs expert on Antiques Roadshow. Kaplan serves on the Board of Directors of the Appraisers Association of America, the Alexia Foundation, and the Palm Beach Photographic Centre.

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Michael P. Kelly

Michael P. Kelly, manager of clinical imaging at Duke University Eye Center, is an award-winning ophthalmic photographer. He has directed ophthalmic imaging departments at the Cleveland Clinic, Cincinnati Eye Institute, West Coast Retina Medical Group, and California Pacific Medical Center. A contributing editor to the Journal of Ophthalmic Photography for ten years, Kelly has published and lectured widely on the subject of ophthalmic photography.

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Brian O'Connor and Irene Klaver

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Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette

Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette, who discovered the Scopes trial negatives in 2004, is an independent historian and author of Reframing Scopes: Journalists, Scientists and Lost Photographs from the Trial of the Century (University Press of Kansas, 2008) and Science on the Air: Popularizers and Personalities on Radio and Early Television (University of Chicago Press, 2008). She is currently a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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Laurie Lambrecht

Laurie Lambrecht, artist and photographer, has specialized in wedding photography for the past ten years. Her commissioned work has been published in the New York Times, Martha Stewart Wedding, Modern Bride, and Elegant Bride. Lambrecht’s personal work has been exhibited in galleries in New York, Los Angeles, and London.

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Kenneth G. Libbrecht

Kenneth G. Libbrecht, professor of physics and physics department chair at the California Institute of Technology, researches across a broad range of topics in physics and astrophysics. A particular and ongoing interest in the molecular dynamics of crystal growth led him to study how ice crystals grow from water vapor, which is essentially the physics of snowflakes.

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Taylor B. Lothson

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Barbara Buhler Lynes

Barbara Buhler Lynes, curator of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, is also director of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center, both in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Lynes is the author of numerous books, essays, and exhibition catalogues on O'Keeffe and other American modernists, including Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction, 2009; Georgia O'Keeffe and the Camera: The Art of Identity, 2008; and Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Subjects of Self, 2008.

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Terry Mann

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Cayetana Maristela

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Reya Mellicker

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Jim Moore

Jim Moore, poet and educator, is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently, Lightning at Dinner, published by Graywolf Press (2005). His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the American Poetry Review, the Nation, and the Paris Review, as well as in many other magazines and anthologies. Moore—a recipient of awards from the Bush Foundation, the LOFT Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board—teaches in the MFA Program at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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Dorothy Moss

Dorothy Moss, lecturer in American Studies for Smith College’s “Smith at the Smithsonian,” has served as assistant curator of American Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and as a writer for the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Her dissertation is titled, "Recasting the Copy: Original Paintings and Reproductions at the Dawn of American Mass Culture, ca. 1900."

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Tien Nguyen

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Phil Patton

Phil Patton, design critic and cultural historian, is the author of numerous books, including Open Road: A Celebration of the American Highway and most recently 20th Century Classic Cars: 100 Years of Automotive Ads (Taschen). A contributing editor at Esquire, WIRED, and I.D. magazines, Patton writes on automotive design for the New York Times and teaches in the School of Visual Art’s design criticism program.

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Shannon Thomas Perich

Shannon Thomas Perich, associate curator in the Photographic History Collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH), is author of Portrait of a Family that explores Richard Avedon's January 3, 1961 photographs of John F. Kennedy and family. A regular contributor to NPR's Picture Show and the NMAH blog, Perich also teaches history of photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her next book, From Daguerreotype to Digital: Ten Case Studies in Photographic Portraiture is due out in Spring 2011.

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Sandra S. Phillips

Sandra S. Phillips, senior curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, has organized numerous exhibitions including retrospectives of work by Sebastiao Salgado, Helen Levitt, John Gutmann, Dorothea Lange, William Klein, Diane Arbus, Robert Adams, and Daido Moriyama, and group exhibitions such as Police Pictures: The Photograph as Evidence and Crossing the Frontier: Photography and the Developing West, 1849 to the Present.

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Dwight Pinkley

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Robert Pollack

Robert Pollack, professor of Biological Sciences and director of the Center for the Study of Science and Religion at the Earth Institute at Columbia University (www.columbia.edu/cu/cssr), is the author of over one hundred research papers on mammalian cells and has written numerous opinion pieces and reviews on aspects of molecular biology, medical ethics and science education. His books include Signs of Life: the Language and Meanings of DNA (1994); The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith: Order, Meaning and Free Will in Modern Science (2000); and The Missing Moment: How the Unconscious Shapes Modern Science (2001).

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Sandy Puc’

Sandy Puc’, portrait photographer and educator in Littleton, Colorado, is a co-founder of The Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep Foundation. That group, a not-for-profit network of more than 7,500 professional photographers, offers photographic services at no cost to families in over twenty-five countries worldwide, who are grieving the loss of newborns. Puc’ is also board member of the Professional Photographers of America.

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Linda Purdy

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Fred Ritchin

Fred Ritchin, professor of Photography & Imaging at New York University, is the author of numerous books, including After Photography, an account of digital media’s impact on documentary photography and society. Director of PixelPress, which creates websites, books, and exhibitions promoting human rights, Ritchin was formerly picture editor of the New York Times Magazine, executive editor of Camera Arts magazine and founding director of the documentary photography educational program at the International Center of Photography.

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Bob Rogers

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Elizabeth Rose

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John Rutherford

John Rutherford, archaeologist for the Cultural Resources Management and Protection Section of the Fairfax County Park Authority, has more than twenty-five years experience in the eastern and southwestern United States. His specialties include prehistoric stone tool replication, refitting of lithic artifact assemblages, artifact analysis, photography, and cartography. Since joining the Fairfax County Park Authority, he has been involved in building and maintaining geographic information system (GIS) databases and maps of all cultural resources in the county.

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Jeff Sandoz

Jeff Sandoz, psychologist, runs a psychotherapy and addiction recovery center in Venice, Florida. He has published papers and research on Alzheimer’s disease, alcoholism recovery, mental retardation, and organization development in numerous journals, and teaches at State College of Florida and Florida Gulf Coast University.

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Luc Sante

Luc Sante, writer and critic, is known for his essays, articles, and books on photography, literature, art, and cultural phenomenon. A contributor to the New York Review of Books and the New York Times Magazine, his recent books include Folk Photography (2009), Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990-2005 (2007), Walker Evans (1999), Evidence (1992), and Low Life (1991). Sante teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.

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Lisa Savage

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Edwin Schupman

Edwin Schupman, citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, works in the Education Office of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. As a culture-based curriculum developer and trainer of educators, he produces materials for school and family audiences that focus on improving education for and about American Indians across the United States.

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Jacquelyn Days Serwer

Jacquelyn Days Serwer, chief curator at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), leads the curatorial team planning for NMAAHC’s opening exhibitions, and the development of its permanent collection. Prior to her current Smithsonian appointment, Serwer was chief curator at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and chief curator and curator of contemporary art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum during the 1980s and 1990s, where she produced numerous exhibition, catalogs, and essays.

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Lauren Shakely

Lauren Shakely is Senior Vice President and Publisher of Clarkson Potter Publisher, a division of Random House specializing in books on lifestyle, cooking, design, and crafts. Before coming to Clarkson Potter, Shakely held senior editorial positions at Rizzoli, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Aperture magazine, and ARTnews.

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Jennifer Sharpe

Jennifer Sharpe, writer, is a contributor to National Public Radio's daily news magazine show, Day to Day. She has also worked as a book editor, a music advisor (Gap Inc.), graphic designer (Viacom, HBO, Interscope Records, Capitol Records), and wrote music for the film Go Fish, 1994. Sharpe’s now-defunct experimental pop-culture website, SharpeWorld (2000-2005), gained a wide underground following and was chosen as one of Yahoo!'s top twenty-five websites of the year in 2003.

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Allan Shulman

Allan Shulman, architect, urban designer, and writer, focuses on themes of tropical architecture, housing, and regional design histories. His most recent book is Miami Modern Metropolis: Paradise and Paradox in Midcentury Architecture and Planning and he co-authored Miami Architecture: An AIA Guide to Downtown, the Beaches, and Coconut Grove and The Making of Miami Beach 1933-1942: The Architecture of Lawrence Murray Dixon. A Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, Shulman is an assistant professor at the University of Miami School of Architecture and founding principal of the architectural firm Shulman + Associates.

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Carol Squiers

Carol Squiers, writer, editor, and curator at the International Center of Photography, has organized exhibitions including Weird Beauty: Fashion Photography Now (2009) and Avedon Fashion 1944-2000 (2009), both co-curated with Vince Aletti, and the five-part series Imaging the Future: The Intersection of Science, Technology, and Photography (2001-2004). Her writing has been published in numerous exhibition catalogues and periodicals including the New York Times, Artforum, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Aperture. Squiers edited Overexposed: Essays on Contemporary Photography (2000) and The Critical Image: Essays on Contemporary Photograph (1990) and is the author of The Body at Risk: Photography of Disorder, Illness, and Healing (2005).

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Jos Stam

Jos Stam, computer scientist and 3-D graphics specialist, is known for his groundbreaking work in creating algorithms and programming for the simulation of natural phenomenon, especially fire, fluids, and gasses. Senior research scientist at Autodesk Research, Stam has received Academy Awards for Technical Achievement (2005, 2008) and the Computer Graphics Achievement Award from SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques) in 2005.

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Blake Stimson

Blake Stimson, professor within the Art History and Critical Theory programs at the University of California, Davis, researches the role of social and political imagining in aesthetic experience. His recent publications include The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation (MIT, 2006), Collectivism after Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945, co-edited with Gregory Sholette (Minnesota, 2007), and The Meaning of Photography, co-edited with Robin Kelsey (Clark/Yale, 2008).

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Mindy Stricke

Mindy Stricke, founder and owner of SingleShots.com, is a photographer, artist and entrepreneur whose photographs have been exhibited throughout the US and Canada. Stricke’s work has most recently been exhibited at the Safe-T Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, and as part of the multimedia art collective Wakow! at Living Arts, Tulsa, OK. Her portraits and other work have been featured in national and international publications including the New York Times, Time Magazine, Time Out New York, Newsweek, and Voce, among others. She is currently curating stories of people’s online dating experiences for an art project based on SingleShots. Originally from New York, she now lives and works in Toronto, ON.

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Maureen Taylor

Maureen Taylor, internationally recognized expert on the intersection of history, genealogy, and photography. She has been featured in top media outlets, including The View, Better Homes & Gardens, the Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, MSNBC, PBS Ancestors, and many others. Taylor is the author of a number of books and magazine articles, contributing editor at Family Tree Magazine, and editorial board member of Legacy Magazine. The Wall Street Journal named Taylor "the nation's foremost historical photo detective."

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Steve Turner

Steven Turner, associate curator for the Division of Medicine and Science at the National Museum of American History, specializes in science education, the history of physics, and the history of astronomy. Turner—who edits the journal, Rittenhouse, and has published Instruments for Science, 1800-1914: Scientific Trade Catalogs in Smithsonian Collections, a web project—received the Smithsonian Affiliations Award of Excellence in 2004.

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Doug Ubelaker

Doug Ubelaker, curator and senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, has published extensively in the general field of human skeletal biology with an emphasis on forensic applications. Currently he serves as president-elect of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

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Paco Underhill

Paco Underhill, CEO and president of Envirosell, is an expert on shopping behavior, retailing, and global consumer trends. His books include Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping (2000); Call of the Mall: The Geography of Shopping (2004); and What Women Want (2010). Underhill’s columns and editorials appear often in media outlets including the New York Times, Money Magazine, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, and he is a popular keynote speaker at conferences, educational and corporate events around the world.

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Jane Walsh

Jane Walsh, anthropologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, is best known for her work with museum collections and for exposing several crystal skulls, once thought to be Pre-Columbian, as 19th-century German fakes. She is now working with several museums to create a database that can be used to identify bogus Pre-Columbian jade, crystal, and other stone artifacts.

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Sharon J. Washington

Sharon J. Washington, Ph.D., executive director of the National Writing Project (NWP), has twenty years of experience in the field of education, as both a faculty member and university administrator. NWP is a professional development network dedicated to improving the teaching of writing and improving learning in the nation’s schools, serving teachers of writing at all grade levels, primary through university, and in all subjects. Local writing project sites are located on nearly two hundred university and college campuses across the country and work in partnership with K-12 schools.

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John Waters

John Waters, filmmaker, writer, and visual artist, is known for challenging cultural norms, good taste, and poking holes in propriety. His feature films include Pink Flamingos (1972), Female Trouble (1974), Hairspray (1988), Pecker (1998), and A Dirty Shame (2004). Author of books including Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981), and Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters (1987), Waters’ artwork was featured in a retrospective exhibition organized by the New Museum, New York in 2004.

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Nancy Smith Weber

Nancy Smith Weber, affiliate faculty member of the Depart of Forest Ecosystems and Society at Oregon State University, holds both masters and doctorate degrees in botany from the University of Michigan, where she specialized in mycology. She is senior or co-author of over fifty publications on mycological topics, many about morels and related cup-fungi in western North America.

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Jeff T. Williams

Jeff Williams, collections manager in the Division of Fishes at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, is a scientist whose research over the past 30 years has primarily focused on the systematics, taxonomy, and zoogeography of marine fishes. His work often involves traveling to remote parts of the world to collect fish specimens for the national collections using SCUBA, submersible, and other fishing methods. The fish collected on these expeditions help to document and inform marine fish biodiversity in the world's seas.

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Carla Williams

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Jeremy Wolfe

Jeremy Wolfe, director of the Visual Attention Lab and the Center for Advanced Medical Imaging at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard University, has published numerous articles on visual search and visual attention. Wolfe is also editor of the journal Attention, Perception and Psychophysics and teaches psychology courses at both MIT and Harvard.

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Sam Yanes

Sam Yanes, communications consultant whose clients have included Intel Corporation, Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Garden conservancy, worked for many years as vice president of corporate communications for Polaroid Corporation. Yanes has also served as trustee and president of the board of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; commissioner of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; a member of the Board of Fellows of the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona; University of Arizona; an overseer of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; and president of the Beacon Cultural Foundation, New York.

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Bonnie Yochelson

Bonnie Yochelson, art historian and independent curator, specializes in photography. Her publications include Berenice Abbott: Changing New York, The Complete WPA Project (1997) and Rediscovering Jacob Riis, Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn of the Century New York (2007). Yochelson teaches in the MFA Photography Department, School of Visual Arts, New York City, and contributes to "The Visible City," a column in the Sunday New York Times.