Sean William Nolan has been collecting early photographs for 50 years, a venture which combines his love of both history and photography. He was an Art History major with a special interest in early photography and silent films. His other interests include bad hard-boiled detective fiction as well as composing and performing early music. He is the founder of the Society for the Repeal of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which anybody can join by alphabetizing their spice rack, carrying a stone uphill, or writing a fugue.