Me. Here Now

Corinne Vionnet

ISBN 10: 0998649007 / ISBN 13: 9780998649009

Published by Fall Line Press May 2017, 2017

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Like New, housed in original publisher's poly sleeve; May show gentle wear from handling.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Me. Here Now
• Publisher: Fall Line Press May 2017
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0998649007
• ISBN 13: 9780998649009
• Binding: Oversize Softcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Printing: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art - Photography

About this title

Synopsis

The advent of smartphones has conditioned new reflexes and created a new, unsettling gestural vocabulary that evokes a near-mystical posture. A direct reference to the work of Abraham Moles on the philosophy of centrality, ME. Here Now captures the specific moment when tourists take, with their smartphones, near-identical pictures 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 the certificate of presences by Roland Barthes or with the photograph-trophies by Susan Sontag. Vionnet's portraits of these nameless individuals, half-concealed behind smartphone screens, also underscore the omnipresence of surveillance in public areas and remind us that all of our wanderings may be photographed.

About the Author

Corinne Vionnet is a visual artist based in Vevey, Switzerland who is a pioneer in the exploration and repurposing of web-based imagery. Her work is included in collections such as SF MOMA, Musée de l'Elysée, and more. Her work has also been exhibited throughout the world and reviewed in numerous publications including Artforum, Hyperallergic, Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, and the British Journal of Photography. Marvin Heiferman organizes exhibitions, web-based projects and publications about photography and visual culture for institutions that have included the Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian Institution, International Center of Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA PS1, Carnegie Museum of Art and the New Museum. He has written for museums, galleries, publications, blogs and magazines including The New York Times, Gagosian Gallery, CNN, Artforum, Design Observer, Aperture, Art in America and BOMB.