Heinz K. Henisch is Emeritus Professor of the History of Photography at Penn State, the founding editor of History of Photography, and a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain.
Bridget A. Henisch is the author of Fast and Feast: Food in Medieval Society (1976). Together they co-authored The Photographic Experience, 1839-1914: Images and Attitudes (1994) and The Painted Photograph, 1839-1914: Origins, Techniques, Aspirations (1996), both from Penn State.