SERGE HAMBOURG is an independent photographer who in the 1960s and 1970s worked directly for the magazine, Le Nouvel Observateur and the newspaper, Le Figaro. He has also worked as a producer of television films and as a publicity photographer for several advertising agencies. His photographs have been reproduced in books, magazines, and journals, including Paris Match, New York Magazine and Time, and his work has been exhibited at museums and galleries around the world. He lives and works in Paris.
THOMAS CROW is Director of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, and Professor of the History of Art at the University of Southern California. A contributing editor of Artforum, he writes frequently on contemporary art and cultural issues and has published several books including The Rise of the Sixties (1996, 2nd ed. 2005).
M. ANNE SA'ADAH is Joel Parker Professor of Law and Political Science at Dartmouth College. She is also the author of Contemporary France: A Democratic Education (2003) and The Shaping of Liberal Politics in Revolutionary France: A Comparative Perspective (1990), among others.