About the Author

Ferdinand Protzman is an award-winning writer, culture critic and contributing editor to ARTnews magazine. He is the author of LANDSCAPE: Photographs of Time and Place (2003), WIDE ANGLE: National Geographic Greatest Places (2005) and WORK: The World in Photographs (2006). His essays, reviews and features have appearted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The International Herald Tribune and the Harvard Review