Liz Brown is at work on Twilight Man: The Strange Life and Times of Harrison Post, to be published by Viking. Her reviews and essays have appeared in Bookforum, Elle Decor, frieze, London Review of Books, Los Angeles Times, and New York Times Book Review, among other publications. She is a recipient of a Wallis Annenberg Research Grant and has been a visiting writer at Wesleyan University, as well as a faculty member in the International Center for Photography-Bard MFA program. She lives in Los Angeles.

Amanda Maddox is an associate curator in the department of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Since 2011, she has organized or co-organized numerous exhibitions at the Getty, including Now Then: Chris Killip and the Making of “In Flagrante” (2017); Ishiuchi Miyako: Postwar Shadows (2015); Josef Koudelka: Nationality Doubtful (2014); and Japan’s Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto (2013). During her stay at the Dora Maar House, Maddox completes work related to a forthcoming exhibition and publication about Dora Maar.