About the Author

David Harris is an independent curator and photographic historian, specializing in nineteenth-century and contemporary architectural and landscape photography. Author of numerous essays and reviews, Harris wrote "Gabor Szilasi: Photographs, 1954-1996" (1997), and, with Eric Sandweiss, "Eadweard Muybridge and the Photographic Panorama of San Francisco, 1850-1880 "(1993). Lyman P. Van Slyke taught modern Chinese history at Stanford University until his retirement in 1994. He is the author of five books and numerous articles and essays.