Geoff Dyer

Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America’s Library is the result of celebrated American photography curator Anne Wilkes Tucker’s excavation of nearly 500 images—out of a collection of over 14 million—permanently housed at the Library of Congress.

Camilo José Vergara is drawn to the urban fabric of America’s inner cities—to the buildings that compose them and the life and culture embedded in its structures and streets.

For more than 30 years, visual documentarian Carol M. Highsmith has captured life, people, and places across America on behalf of the Library of Congress, where her archive has reached 50,000 images (and growing).

Donna Ferrato is a documentary photographer, whose gifts for exploration, illumination, and documentation—coupled with a commitment to revealing the darker sides of humanity—have made her a giant in the medium.

Sharon Farmer has been a professional photojournalist and exhibition photographer for more than 40 years, shooting news stories, political campaigns, cultural events, conferences, and portraits.

Will Wilson’s art projects center around the continuation and transformation of customary indigenous cultural practice.

Danny Lyon was born in 1942 in Brooklyn, New York. He is an American photographer and filmmaker. All of Lyon’s publications work in the style of photographic New Journalism.