Mark Salber Phillips teaches History at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He is the author of a number of studies on distance and historical representation, including On Historical Distance (2013) and Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820 (2000). Earlier publications include Questions of Tradition (2004) with Gordon Schochet, The Memoir of Marco Parenti; A Life in Renaissance Florence (P1987), and Francesco Guicciardini; The Historian's Craft (1974). Barbara Caine is Professor of History and Head of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on the history of feminism and on the relationship between biography and history. Her recent books include From Bombay to Bloomsbury: A Biography of the Stracheys (2005) and Biography and History (2010).Julia Adeney Thomas is Associate Professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, USA. She writes about photography, the environment, and historiography in Japan and comparatively. Her books include Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology (winner of the 2002 John K. Fairbank prize from the American Historical Association) and Japan at Nature's Edge, co-edited with Brett Walker and Ian Miller. Her essays on photography have appeared in The American Historical Review, History and Theory, The Journal of Asian Studies, and other journals. She is currently at work on Ever So Real: Photography's Politics in Japan, 1940-60 (forthcoming).