Images re-posted from MyModernNet.
Using photo sharing sites and google images, Switzerland-based artist Corinne Vionnet combined hundreds of tourist photos to create a single portrait of each popular tourist destination. Each image is composed of layers of 200 to 300 photos, and the end product is stunning. The artist asks: “Why do we always take the same picture, if not to interact with what already exists? The photograph proves our presence. And to be true, the picture will be perfectly consistent with the pictures in our collective memory.” This experiment in digital photography takes images and icons that we’ve all seen and makes us see them from a more contextual, human perspective, forcing some serious existential questions, not least of which is whether or not I should take a camera on my next big trip.
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