David R. Harris is an independent curator and photographic historian specializing in nineteenth-century and contemporary architectural and landscape photography. He was associate curator of photograph at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal for ten years. He currently teaches in the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University, Toronto. In addition to numerous essays and articles, he is the author of Of Battle and Beauty: Felice Beato’s Photographs of China, Gabor Szilasi: Photographs, 1954–1996, and Eadweard Muybridge and the Photographic Panorama of San Francisco, 1850–1880.