Rena Silverman is a photography writer and aspiring lutenist (player of the lute). She is a regular contributor to the New York Times’ Lens blog, for which she has written about India's earliest photographs, August Sander, Sylvia Plachy, and, once, an auction involving the Polish government and a group of Marilyn Monroe photographs. Silverman is also the author of the book Women of Vision: National Geographic Photographers on Assignment. She lives in Manhattan with her lute and traveling Royal typewriter.
