
ME. Here Now
- 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.