Vanessa Rocco

Vanessa Rocco

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Dr. Vanessa Rocco is Professor of Humanities and Fine Arts at Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, and former Associate Curator at the International Center of Photography in New York. Her presentation was entitled "Photofascism". Photography and fascism in interwar Europe developed into a highly toxic and combustible formula. The use of visual imagery in 1930s Germany and Italy is a potent case study for every generation, particularly in our current global political environment. Rocco’s book Photofascism demonstrates how dictatorial regimes have deployed photographic mass media, methodically and in combination with aggressive display techniques, to manufacture consent among their publics, oftentimes with highly destructive — even catastrophic — results.

Publication Date

4-24-2024

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