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Time: July 20, 2011 to September 19, 2011
Location: Rossinière Suisse
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Event Type: exhibition
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Latest Activity: Jul 20, 2011
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The village of Rossinière in the foothills of the Swiss Alps is reputed for its 17th- and 18th- century architecture and its verdant setting. During the summer of 2011, HIGH ALTITUDE contrasts this vernacular village identity with the questioning, inquisitive and provocative viewpoints of contemporary imagemakers.
Mountains have been instrumental in defining identities, in Switzerland, as elsewhere in the world. Are the mountains still a source of inspiration for today’s creators? How do perceptions of them shift as their populations disappear and references are more and more limited to the urban world?
10 exhibitions featuring 40 international artists are held from July 17 to September 19 in various spaces of the village of Rossinière. Meetings with the artists, lectures, guided tours, educational activities will accompany the exhibitions. HIGH ALTITUDE is also a book, published by 5 Continents, which deals with all the works gathered together for the festival. Specialists in art, photography, history, geography discuss the mountain, its transformations and its representations.
Victoria and Albert Museum's photography collection
National Science and Media Museum
RPS Journal 1853-2012 online and searchable
Photographic History Research Centre, Leicester
Birkbeck History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné
British Photography. The Hyman Collection
The Press Photo History Project Mapping the photo agencies and photographers of Fleet Street and the UK
The correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot
Historic England Archive
UAL Photography and Photography and the Archive Research Centre
Royal Photographic Society's Historical Group
www.londonstereo.com London Stereoscopic Company / T. R. Williams
www.earlyphotography.co.uk British camera makers and companies
Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock.
National Portrait Gallery, London
http://www.freewebs.com/jb3d/
Alfred Seaman and the Photographic Convention
Frederick Scott Archer
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