Rixon Reed is the founder and director of photo-eye. In 1979 Reed started photo-eye as a mailorder photography book source in Austin, Texas. In 1991 he moved the business to Santa Fe, New Mexico where it resides today as the home of photo-eye and photo-eye Gallery. In 1997 photo-eye’s website was launched and became one of the first e-commerce independent bookstores online. photo-eye has since grown to become the world’s largest online resource for photography books and now includes many other divisions, all developed by Reed. He has a BS in Natural Science from the University of Arkansas and studied Filmmaking and Photography at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He also worked for the Witkin Gallery in New York during the 1970s.

Daniel Espeset joined the photo-eye book division in 2007 and was named managing editor of the magazine late that same year. He studied Fine Art, Film and Literature at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, and the University of Iceland. Espeset has been involved in film festivals and photographic exhibitions throughout the US and Northern Europe.

Sarah Bradley is girl Friday at photo-eye, working in several divisions. She began editing for the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University, where she also earned a BA in English.

Shane Lavalette was born in 1987 in Burlington, VT. He is currently living in Cambridge, MA, studying for a degree from Tufts University and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. When he is not making photographs, he is writing about photographs. His Journal, which has one of the highest readerships of photography-related blogs, focuses primarily on fine art photography and issues concerning contemporary photographic practice. Shane's own work can be found at shanelavalette.com.

Alex Sweetman teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he has helped assemble one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of 19th and 20th century photography books in the world. In 1985 he mounted the first comprehensive exhibition of photography books, "Photographic Book to Photobookwork," nearly 400 books and 100 photographs at the California Museum of Photography.

Richard Gordon is a photographer who lives in California. His photographs and artist's books are in museum and library special collections from sea to shining see. Four prints from his recently completed book project, American Surveillance, will be in SFMOMA's surveillance and voyeurism exhibit in 2009. He is one of five photographer's in the 'Camera as Subject Matter' travelling exhibition.

Jerome Poynton is a producer and writer living in New York City. His article in this issue, "Robert Frank, Gunslinger with Camera", will appear in the forthcoming book, Jewish Artists on New York’s Lower East Side, scheduled to be published by Seven Story Press.

Karl Baden has been on the fine arts faculty at Boston College since 1989. His photographs have been widely exhibited, including at the Robert Mann Gallery, Zabriskie Gallery, Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Howard Yezerski Gallery, The Institute of Contemporary Art and The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Musée Batut in France, Photokina in Cologne, Germany, and The Photographers Gallery in London. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. His photographs and visual books are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Addison Gallery of American Art, the Polaroid International Collection and the Guggenheim Museum Library.

Covering Photography is an important online resource of book and magazine covers illustrated by well-known art and documenatary photographers. It's founder, Karl Baden has been a collector of conventional photobooks for several decades. Beginning in 2000, he began putting together a collection of non-photographic volumes (primarily fiction and poetry) that have important photographs or images by important photographers as cover illustrations. The purpose of this ongoing collection is to explore the relationship between book cover design and the history of photography, particularly regarding the photographic cover as metaphor for book content, and the influence of photographic history on popular culture. Most of this collection may be found on the website and database CoveringPhotography.com, where anyone may access these covers via photographer, author, publisher, publication date and designer. An upcoming exhibition of some of these covers, entitled Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence and Coincidence is scheduled for the Fall of 2008 at the Boston Public Library.

Jeffrey Ladd is a New York based photographer whose work has been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Oklahoma City Musuem of Art, International Center of Photography, Soros Foundation's Open Society Institute, Museum of the City of New York and the Howard Greenberg Gallery among others. He splits his time between photographing and writing about photography. In 2007, he created 5B4 - Photography and Books, a website dedicated to discussing and reviewing photography and art-related publications. Ladd is one of the founders of Errata Editions.

John Cohen is a photographer, film maker, musician, artist & ex- professor at SUNY Purchase. His photographs are at the Metropolitan Museum, National Gallery, MOMA etc. His photography books include There Is No Eye and Young Bob (Powerhouse). He's made 15 film documentaries about traditional music- shown on PBS & BBC and at festivals world-wide, including 7 at the Margaret Mead Film Festival. His first film The High Lonesome Sound is still in distribution after 40 years ( Shanachie ). He is best known as musician with the New Lost City Ramblers for the past fifty years, with at least 25 recordings, Grammy nominations etc.