28th of Feb ‘11
Mon 10:23
photography
Corinne Vionnet
The images made by tourists are picture imitations. They demonstrate the desire to produce a photograph of an image that already exists, one like those we have already seen. It is in fact a style of manipulating the viewer. 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.
I’m really glad I saw this, because I had some similar ideas since becoming a ‘tourist’. Love the painterly effect of the final image, a result I wouldn’t necessarily have expected.