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Joan Juliet Buck is an American novelist, critic, essayist, and editor. She served as editor-in-chief of French Vogue from 1994 to 2001. While a contributing editor to Vogue, Vanity Fair, Traveler and The New Yorker, she wrote two novels, The Only Place to Be and Daughter of the Swan. Currently, she is the consulting editor to Dasha Zhukova's art and fashion magazine, Garage, and writes for W, Harper's Bazaar, and New York Times T magazine. Abigail Solomon-Godeau is Professor Emerita from the University of California, Santa Barbara and now lives in Paris. She is the author of Photography at the Dock: Essays on Photographic History, Institutions, and Practices (1992); Male Trouble: A Crisis in Representation (1997); Birgit Jurgenssen, coauthored with Gabriele Schor (2011); and Rosemary Laing (2012). Her essays on photography, contemporary art, and feminism have appeared in journals such as Afterimage, Art in America, Aperture, Artforum, and October and have been widely translated and anthologized.