Born in New York in 1956, Jerry Spagnoli is one of the principal practitioners of the daguerreotype and lectures regularly on the subject. His work is held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. Spagnoli's work has appeared in many books, and Steidl has published his Daguerreotypes (2006), American Dreaming (2011) and Regard (2019).