Gillian is an accomplished fine art photographer with a sophisticated eye, whose work encompasses architecture, documentary, landscape and lifestyle photography. Trained in New York by several of the top fine art and fashion photographers in the world, Gillian is a Magnum Foundation awardee and graduate of Princeton University and California College of the Arts. She is the grandniece of Augusta Roddis and great-granddaughter of Catherine and Hamilton Roddis, both of whom are key family members as featured in the book. Gillian worked closely with Roddis Collection curator Edward Maeder to bring the garments in the Roddis house alive through photography. She lives in Moss Beach, just south of San Francisco.

Doug is a photographer based in southern Maine. Much of his work involves telling a story with objects and exploring how they relate to each other, often using a fiber optic light that can pinpoint certain areas of a still life, and leave other parts in shadow.

He has spent many years photographing people and creating still life collages for both advertising and editorial clients, including The Boston Globe and The Washington Post, and the publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Doug worked closely with authors Bradbury and Maeder to produce still life images that relate to the people and stories in each chapter of the book. This allows the reader to relive the authors’ discovery of the multitude of garments, accessories, objects, and photos stored in the attic of the Roddis house.

Established in 2012 by Myfanwy Vernon-Hunt, This Side is a design and art direction agency based in London, working with the publishing industry, and creative and commercial sectors. Recent clients include leading international publishers as well as renowned art museums and galleries such as 4th Estate, Bloomsbury Publishing, HarperCollins, Royal Academy of Arts, Thames & Hudson, and V&A Publishing.

Rebeka is a freelance editor based in London, specializing in fashion, the arts, history, and museum publishing. She has worked in-house at the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, and Thames & Hudson, and also at The Guardian, Persephone Books and Daunt Books. She now prepares material for publication on behalf of a variety of prestigious London-based museums and other renowned international arts-based organizations.

Based in London, the Victoria and Albert Museum’s extraordinarily diverse collections and exhibitions inspire excellence in design, and excite and inspire the next generation of artists, designers, and makers. V&A Publishing creates beautiful, authoritative books on a wide variety of subjects, with all profits returned to the museum, helping to maintain its position as the world’s leading collection of art and design.

American Style and Spirit: Fashions and Lives of the Roddis Family, 1850–1995 is distributed in the US and Canada by ABRAMS. For more than 60 years, ABRAMS has published and distributed brilliantly designed books with the highest production values, on a wide variety of subjects including art, photography, the performing arts, fashion, interior design, and more.