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Merry A. Foresta is Senior Curator of Photography for the National Museum of American Art and served as coordinator of the Secrets of the Dark Chamber exhibition. She has curated numerous shows for the National Museum of American Art, including the critically acclaimed "Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray." She also contributed essays to "Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography" , National Museum of American Art in association with the University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Send a comment to Merry Forresta

John Wood is professor of English and director of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at McNeese State University. HisThe Daguerreotype: A Sesquicentennial Celebration (Iowa, 1989) won the Photo History Award of the American Photographic Historical Society. His America and the Daguerreotype (Iowa, 1991) was named one of the outstanding academic books of 1992 byChoice. His essays and poems have appeared in a variety of publications.

In addition to the exhibit they co-authored the book "Secrets of the Dark Chamber, the Art of the American Daguerreotype".

Learn more secrets in an interview Merry gave to Essell Thomas.

Past, Present and Future (1:12) RealAudio
The relationship of science and art connects with the milestones of invention often. Hear how the Internet is joined with the Daguerreotype.