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Brooks Johnson, Curator of Photography, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, holds an M.A. degree from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, and the B.F.A. degree from The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore. Johnson has served as a panelist/reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities, Virginia Commission for the Arts, Houston FotoFest, PhotoAmericas, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Friends of Photography, San Francisco. He has appeared in media such as the Arts and Entertainment Network, BBC Radio, CBS Sunday Morning, and PBS TV WNET in New York and WHRO in Norfolk. He is also on the staff of the Truth With A Camera workshop, held annually at the Chrysler Museum. Edited Aperture's essential series Photography Speaks and authored Photography Speaks II: 76 Photographers on Their Art.

Tom Rankin, Associate Professor of the Practice and Director of the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University. A photographer, filmmaker, and folklorist, Tom Rankin has been documenting and interpreting American culture for nearly twenty years. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (1993), which received the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Photography, 'Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre': Photographs of a River Life (1995), Faulkner's World: The Photographs of Martin J. Dain (1997), and Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (2000).

Robert Sullivan, Deputy Managing Editor, LIFE Magazine and Editorial Director, LIFE Books. Based in New York, he edited eight LIFE premium magazines and books in 2004, including The Great LIFE Photographers and Last Letters Home: Voices of Americans from the Battlefields of Iraq (CDS). In 2001 he was the editor of The New York Times Number One bestselling book, ONE NATION: America Remembers September 11, 2001, which now has more than two million copies in print. Sullivan also writes and reports occasionally on general interest topics for TIME. A cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College, he has a Masters in Journalism from Boston University.

William E. Williams, Chair Curator of Photography and Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Haverford College. Winner of prestigious Pew and Guggenheim Fellowships, Williams' work is included in the permanent collections of such institutions as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. An expert on the photography of Walker Evans, Williams lectures widely on the interpretations of Evans' photographs of vernacular architecture. Williams completed a series of photographs of the Civil War battlefield in Gettysburg, taken with large-format cameras, and expanded this project to include numerous Civil War sites of importance to African-Americans. A graduate of Hamilton College and Yale University, Williams is an active leader in the Society of Photographic Education. He has organized over seventy exhibitions in twenty-five years, including work by Lewis Hine, Diane Arbus, Walker Evans, Paul Strand and Harold Edgerton. Author, Gettysburg: A Journey In Time.