Contemporary Photography and the Garden: Deceits and Fantasies
Thomas Padon is a Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs at the American Federation of Arts, where he has organized many major exhibitions, among them,Eternal Egypt: Masterpieces of Ancient Art from The British Museum;Degas and the Dance; andWolfgang Laib: A Retrospective.  He was also the curator of the touring exhibitionNancy Graves: Excavations in Print(1966), for which he wrote the accompanying catalogue raisonné, andShadows in the Floating World: Silhouette in Ukiyo-e Prints(1990) presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Robert Harrison is Professor and Chair of the Department of French and Italian at Stanford University.  He is the author of several books, among them,Forests: A Shadow of Civilization(1992) andThe Dominion of the Dead(2003).Ronald Jones is an artist, critic, cofounder of o-b-o-k (an office for experience design in Stockholm), and faculty member at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule, Frankfurt, and at Konstfack, in Stockholm.Shirin Neshat is a New York-based artist whose photographs and videos have been included in exhibitions and biennial shows around the world.