Mary Bergstein is Professor Emerita of History of Art and Visual Culture at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), USA. She won the American Psychoanalytic Association "Courage to Dream" prize for Mirrors of Memory: Freud, Photography, and the History of Art (2010). Among her other books are In Looking Back One Learns to See: Marcel Proust and Photography (2014) and The Sculpture of Nanni di Banco (2000).