But equally fascinating is the Swiss Camera Museum, nestled between similar quaint buildings in Vevey's old town overlooking the Grande Place where aficionados can enjoy all things still and moving photography.
This "moving photography" was what prompted Maxim Gorky, who saw the Lumière brothers' films at a Russian fair in 1896, to bemoan the "kingdom of shadows" — a mass of people, animals, and vehicles — rushing "straight at you," approaching the edge of the screen, then vanishing "somewhere beyond it".
"The document-processing companies are moving into photography's consumer markets, the photography companies are going after document-processing's office customers, and everyone is chasing the people who want wireless printing technologies when they're on the road," Sandra B. Lawrence, chief marketing officer for the Polaroid Corporation, said.
And it grows more complex and nuanced as the range of texts he uses expands to include fiction, autobiography, the popular press and oral history, and as his forms become more varied, moving into photography and sculpture.
"Louise has a pivotal role moving fashion photography out of formal studio work into a portrayal of the active, modern American woman," Amy Rule, an archivist at the Center for Creative Photography, said.
Moving Pictures Photography transformed.
Our gallery is a showcase for international artists specializing in moving images, photography, graphics related to film, and related arts.
Photographs from "Into the Silence" are on exhibit in Cortona, Italy, through Sept. 30 as part of the Cortona On the Move Photography Festival.
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Born in 1972 in Somerset, Ben Rivers studied sculpture then moved into photography and film.
Worked as an aircraft engineer then moved into photography aged 19".
