Pratt Institute

Education

Ph.D., Art History; European Modernism and Photography, The Graduate Center, CUNY
B.A., School of International Service at American University

Biography

Vanessa Rocco is Assistant Curator of the International Center for Photography(ICP). She has organized several exhibitions and publications at the ICP, including Expanding Vision: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's Experiments of the 1920s (2004), Rises of the Picture Press: Photographic Reportage in Illustrated Magazines, 1918-39(2002), and Modernist Photography from the Daniel Cowin Collection(2005). Her reviews and articles about photography have also appeared in SF Camerawork and Afterimage, among other places. Her most recent publication is The New Woman International, Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s, co-edited with Elizabeth Otto( Ann Arbor: UMP, 2011).

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