Nicoletta Leonardi (Ph.D. University College London) is professor of art history at Turin's Academy of Fine Arts and visiting professor at the University of California, Florence Study Center. Her research interests include the relationship between vision and technology in 19th century US landscape culture, pre-cinema practices of immersive viewing and virtual traveling through images, photographs as material objects, the role of photography as a tool for research and action within urban planning. She has edited several books on Italian photography and her writings have been published in exhibition catalogues, most recently Concrete: Photography and Architecture (Winterthur Fotomuseum/Scheidegger & Spiess, 2013), Franco Vaccari's Exhibitions in Real Time (Spazio Oberdan/Damiani, Milan 2007), De l’Europe: photographies, essaies, histoires (Filigranes Editions, 2007), Masterpieces From the Guggenheim Collection (Guggenheim Publications/Skira 2005). She is the author of Fotografia e materialità in Italia (Postmedia 2013) and Il paesaggio americano dell’Ottocento. Pittori, fotografi e pubblico (Donzelli 2003). She is currently working on a co-edited book with Simone Natale titled Photography and Other Media in the Nineteenth Century: Towards an Integrated History. In 2016 Nicoletta curated Skin, 5th edition Visible White Photo Prize.