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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ellen E. Hyatt

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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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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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Cayetana Maristela

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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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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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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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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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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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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.