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.
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