Corinne Vionnet, ME. Here Now

ME. Here Now

Corinne Vionnet

Publisher
Fall Line Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9780998649009
Specifications
Softcover
24.1 x 29.8 cm
60 pages
20 colour illustrations
English
Essay by Marvin Heiferman

The advent of smartphones has created a new, unsettling gestural vocabulary that evokes a near-mystical posture. Referring to Abraham Moles’s philosophy of centrality, ME. Here Now captures the moment when tourists take near-identical pictures with their smartphones of what is, paradoxically, a unique experience for them. Beyond the ritual of holiday pictures, these images, often instantly shared, create a new language, as with Roland Barthes’s certificate of presence or Susan Sontag’s photograph-trophies. Vionnet’s portraits of nameless people half-concealed behind smartphone screens also underscore the omnipresence of surveillance in public spaces.

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