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and the ambiguities of scale. In the interests of continuing the interdisciplinary discussions that had characterized our thinking, we invited four respondents from the fields of photography, art history, biomedical engineering and vision research, and medicine who shared their own thoughts about looking at faces. We thank our esteemed colleagues who served as respondents: Sylvia Yount, Chief Curator and Louise B. and J. Harwood Cochrane Curator of American Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Gary Schneider, Professor, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers; Thomas Papathomas, Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Director of the Laboratory of Vision Research, and Busch Campus Dean; and Charletta Ayers, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Director, General OB/GYN, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Services UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. We also take this opportunity to commend our students for their hard work, innovative thinking, and willingness to step outside conventions: Corina Apostol, Sara Berkowitz, Kelsey Brosnan, Heather Cammarata-Seale, Boyoung Chang,
Allison Cooper, Seraphina Ferraro, Natalie Fleming, Elvis Fuentes, Virginia Allison Harbin, Alexis Jason-Mathews, Stephen Mandravelis, and Josephine Rodgers. These thirteen students were assigned a difficult task. We asked them to select two or three objects from our initial pool of possibilities and write extended label copy of 100 to 150 words each. To do so they had to focus their thoughts and be both concise and accessible. We believe they succeeded admirably. As a fitting tribute to our students, we include their own self-selected portraits. We also thank Kate Scott, PhD. Candidate in Art History and Graduate Curatorial Assistant at the Zimmerli who served as the e-book’s project manager, Zimmerli’s Publications and Communications Manager Stacy Smith, Assistant Registrar Kiki Michael, and the publication editor Carolyn Vaughn. Donna Gustafson Andrew W. Mellon Liaison for Academic Programs and Curator Susan Sidlauskas Professor of Art History, Rutgers University