"He brings a lot of joy to a lot of people," said Peter Kyriacou, who owns the local Snappy Snaps photography store, which has a number of Wilson works out front.
It is now so easy to tinker with digital images after the shutter has snapped that photography has become as dependent on computers as on cameras.
Set up in 1979 by writer and ethnologist Jean-Yves Loude, Marché de la Creation in Vieux Lyon attracts creatives and art lovers eager to snap up paintings, photography, crafts and engravings.
In the 1940s and beyond, Bob Mizer, a pioneer of homoerotic photography, snapped deliciously kitschy photographs of scantily clad hunks, subverting the tropes of pinup culture with a man as the object of desire.
They were greeted warmly by the iconic musicians and got an exclusive glimpse into the world of music photography, snapping images of the band during their sound check.
The GRD IV has an almost unique hybrid focus system, which allows for instant photography with the "snap" mode.
This weekend the International Center of Photography will let little ones snap their parents, and other creatures, too.
The hit iOS photography app snapped onto Android this year, with just as impressive a range of photography features focused on taking better shots, not just on sharing them.
The one thing he was touchy about, though, was photography — he wouldn't let me snap his picture, no matter how many times I asked.
But this says less about the genius of the common people than it does about photography — it is easy for an amateur to snap a striking picture accidentally.
