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Barbara, wife of the late award-wining photojournalist Gey Villet, will be signing copies of the new book "Loving: An Intimate Portrait". The book documents the extraordinary love story of Mildred and Richard Loving and presents Grey Villet's stunning photo-essay in its entirety for the first time and reveals with striking intensity and clarity the powerful bond of a couple that helped change history. Mildred, a woman of African American and Native American descent and Richard, a white man, were arrested in July 1958 for the crime of interracial marriage, prohibited under Virginia state law. Exiled to Washington, DC, they fought to bring their case to the US Supreme Court. Knowledge of their struggle spread across the nation, and in the spring of 1965, the Life magazine photojournalist Villet spent a few weeks documenting the Lovings and their family and friends as they went about their lives in the midst of their trial. Loving v. Virginia was the landmark US civil rights case that, in a unanimous decision, ultimately ended the prohibition of interracial marriage in 1967. Barbara Villet is an author and journalist who was a photo editor at Life and collaborated on many of Mr. Villet's projects.

Tony Vaccaro, the now 94-year old subject of the resent HBO documentary “Under Fire: The Untold Story of Private First Class Tony Vaccaro” will be in the Monroe Gallery booth #534 . The film tells the story of how Tony survived World Ear II, fighting the enemy while also documenting his experience at great risk. A wide range of Vaccaro's remarkable photographs from the war and after will be on view.