Jacob Loewentheil is an antiquarian and photography expert, as well as the curator of the Marcel Sternberger Collection. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and graduated from Cornell University with a degree in psychology. Long fascinated by other cultures, he has traveled much of the world, including a year spent circumnavigating the globe. His travels have also taken him across much of the American landscape, from the deserts of New Mexico to deep in the Florida Everglades and Alaska's far eastern mountain ranges.