Photo Opportunities

Artist Corinne Vionnet has created these beautiful pictures of landmarks around the world by superimposing hundreds of tourist-taken photographs together. The outcome are blurred, ethereal images that Vionnet says are, "intrinsically linked to the people who took these pictures." While she doesn't immediately choose to condemn the act of tourist photography (or, as Susan Sontag proposes, "photograph-trophies") -- a position I have no problem defending in our social networking-dependent culture -- she instead chooses to focus on the phenomena of collective memory related to picture taking.

More images after the jump.