Photo Opportunities by Corinne Vionnet

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Appreciation towards Corinne Vionnet for providing the following description:

不是表述一个地点本身，而是代表着时间.

这是艺术家Corinne Vionnet将同一景点的几百张照片重合在一起，所做成的合成照片。照片均从网络上搜寻而得。非常有意思。

Photo Opportunities
by Lydie Le Glehuir

We travel, we see a monument, and we take a picture. But, we are millions who travel, millions who see this monument, and millions who take the same picture. Following a simple search on the web, Corinne Vionnet looked at this collection of snapshots, almost identical images produced by these “we” anonymous and unidentified, making her choice on statistical major tourist places. By collecting, then bringing together the successive layers of around hundred “photo souvenirs”, she brings forward the symbolic value or identity of a city or a country that these monuments have acquired with time. Why always take the same picture if not to interact with what already exists? The picture gives the proof of “I was there too, here, where everyone comes on a given day”. To be true, the picture shall be perfectly similar to the one belonging to the collective memory.

Corinne Vionnet’s work is therefore a compilation of snapshots in both senses. That is to say that the result is located in the antipodes of the conventional coolness of the photo souvenirs.

The picture swings between the drawing and the etching. The monumental silhouettes develop into sketches, and then become fragile and dimmer. Presences of watermarks haunt the décor, which disappears in the mist. Finally, the concentration of all those photographs on one subject cannot speak of the object itself but of the time. The passing time, like those curious shadows, which belong to the domain of vagueness, and the eternity congealed into matter transformed into symbol.

The power of conjunction, the one of the image with the one of the viewer shine in the uncertain outline of those monuments. The image’s strength comes from the subject but the viewer’s strength comes from that insignificant photograph, a thousand times repeated and united in a single one. Therefore, from the multitude of pictures, Corinne Vionnet created THE representation, unique for each and every one of those monuments, repre-sentation, which includes all the times, which haunts those places. The tourist’s lemmings therefore become the conscientious visitors of their littleness, passing guests with floating shades which seem simply say “I was here” a way to be present next to those giant stones as long as they last.
 

有评论认为,艺术家通过在网上找图片这一简单的方式，完成了独特的“照片纪念品”。数以万计的人们在相同的地方拍照，这些摄影地点相当于这个城市的象征性价值地或标志地。而这个“照片纪念品”就是一个集体记忆。

评论还认为，这雾一般的照片，那些背后千万脆弱的组成，不是表述一个地点本身，而是代表着时间，照片上面那些奇怪，模糊的阴影，凝结在一起，超越物质，象征着永恒。来自古迹，微不足道的一张张重叠的影像，具有如此的力量。拢括各个时代，独一无二。在图片上，无数 “到此一游”现象，如同古迹一样坚实的存在。

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