PHILLIP PRODGER is executive director of the firm Curatorial Exhibitions in Los Angeles. Previously Head of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the founding Curator of Photography at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, he is the author of numerous books, including William Eggleston Portraits, Only Human: Photographs by Martin Parr, An Alternative History of Photography, and Toshio Shibata: Japan.