Description
Francesca Roccaforte is a photographer and teacher living in San Francisco, California. This collection contains photographic
prints from several of her projects ranging from documenting horse races to Italian historical sites.
Background
Francesca Roccaforte was born and raised in New York City, where her early love of photography and aesthetics was nurtured
and developed by her parents and environment. Her first solo show was at an organization called the "Door" in the West Village
in the 1970s. The "Door" nurtured her creative teenage energy and enabled her to prepare for both intense photographic studies
at the School of Visual Arts and Creative Writing at Hunter College in New York. She spent four years immersed in photo studies,
and working part time as a documentary photographer, performing arts photographer and darkroom technician. She has taken workshops
and classes with W. Eugene Smith, Ansel Adams, Eve Sonneman, Cora Wright Kennedy, Dena, and Alice Beck at the School of Visual
Arts.
Extent
0.25 linear ft.
(1 box)
Restrictions
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Availability
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.