William Wylie is Commonwealth Professor of Art at the University of Virginia. His photographs and films have been shown nationally and internationally, including 100 Great American Photographs at the Amon Carter Museum, Pompeii: Photographs and Fragments at the Yale University Art Gallery, Route 36 at the Joslyn Art Museum, and Visions du Reel at the International Film Festival in Switzerland. Wylie work can be found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Yale University Art Museum, among others. His previous books of photographs are: Riverwalk: Explorations Along the Cache LA Poudre River (University Press of Colorado, 2000), Stillwater (Nazraeli Press, 2002), Carrara (Center for American Places, 2009), Route 36 (Flood Editions, 2010), Pompeii Archive (Yale University Press, 2018), and A Prairie Season (Flood Editions, 2020), all concerned with recognizing how landscapes are created and transformed and how we find our places in them.