Published BOOKS
You will find below a selection of monographic publications of Vionnet's work.
SILVANA EDITORIALE
Corinne Vionnet. Écran Total
Catalog of the first major solo show at the Musée de Pont-Aven in France.
Corinne Vionnet was one of the first artists to explore, recycle and question the endless flow of snapshots shared on the Internet by tourists from all over the world.
She also observes these travelers and photographs them at work in front of landscapes and monuments. Through her series, with their renewed and attractive forms, the Franco-Swiss artist questions our relationship with screens and digital tools that invite us to duplicate images in an endless whirlwind.
The book Écran total, which covers twenty years of creation, accompanies her first solo exhibition at the Musée de Pont-Aven
Published by Silvana Editoriale in 2025
Under the direction of Anne de Mondenard.
Musée de Pont-Aven
128p, 137 images, 14 x 21 cm, French.
More info HERE
Corinne Vionnet was one of the first artists to explore, recycle and question the endless flow of snapshots shared on the Internet by tourists from all over the world.
She also observes these travelers and photographs them at work in front of landscapes and monuments. Through her series, with their renewed and attractive forms, the Franco-Swiss artist questions our relationship with screens and digital tools that invite us to duplicate images in an endless whirlwind.
The book Écran total, which covers twenty years of creation, accompanies her first solo exhibition at the Musée de Pont-Aven
Published by Silvana Editoriale in 2025
Under the direction of Anne de Mondenard.
Musée de Pont-Aven
128p, 137 images, 14 x 21 cm, French.
More info HERE
rvb books
paris paris paris
Corinne Vionnet has been working on mass tourism and the massive circulation of images. Paris Paris Paris follows on from the series that made her famous. After studying several destinations, the artist turned her attention to one of the most photographed cities, and found numerous sites and monuments that feed an uninterrupted flow of images. The Swiss artist transforms the raw material she works with: standardized snapshots of hyper-frequented places that feed social networks. In this book project, the artist presents the works in the Paris Paris Paris series in a highly original way. She stages them with the help of two graphic counterpoints that offer several keys to her approach and subject matter. Silhouettes pile up on the pages, and double printing on the same paper enhances the effect of chaos.
Her images, which reveal nothing of the considerable work involved in their creation (archive research, crowdsourcing and collage), question our collective imaginary and tourist behavior. Why do we always take and share the same images?
Published by RVB BOOKS in 2024
Text by Anne de Mondenard
Designed by Nicolas Polli
110 p, 85 images, 24 x 29.5 cm, dustjacket, French/English.
ISBN: 978-2-492175-38-1, 38€
Her images, which reveal nothing of the considerable work involved in their creation (archive research, crowdsourcing and collage), question our collective imaginary and tourist behavior. Why do we always take and share the same images?
Published by RVB BOOKS in 2024
Text by Anne de Mondenard
Designed by Nicolas Polli
110 p, 85 images, 24 x 29.5 cm, dustjacket, French/English.
ISBN: 978-2-492175-38-1, 38€
RROSE EDITIONS
ALMOST THERE
Each day, millions of tourists, behind the screen of their smartphones, take millions of photos around the world. Alongside the targeted subjects (a monument, a building, an artwork, any attraction point), these pictures often include glimpses of other tourists or passers-by, sometimes accidentally appearing on the edges of images. The compositions can be rough and the bodies cut, showing only legs, an arm with its smartphone extension, the back of a neck.
In “Almost There”, Corinne Vionnet chose to focus on online pictures taken in Bilbao, souvenirs of Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim, Jeff Koons’ Puppy, Louise Bourgeois’ Spider. Anonymous parts of people have been captured, fragmented by the framing. These people are almost there, without being identified nor desired: they are entering or leaving the frame. It remains to be seen whether the thousands of photographers themselves were really there too, or if, in a constantly mediated world, we all lost the sense of immediate presence.
In “Almost There”, Corinne Vionnet chose to focus on online pictures taken in Bilbao, souvenirs of Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim, Jeff Koons’ Puppy, Louise Bourgeois’ Spider. Anonymous parts of people have been captured, fragmented by the framing. These people are almost there, without being identified nor desired: they are entering or leaving the frame. It remains to be seen whether the thousands of photographers themselves were really there too, or if, in a constantly mediated world, we all lost the sense of immediate presence.
Almost There
Corinne Vionnet
Published by RRose Editions in 2023
handmade copies
13 x 19 cm, 34 C-Prints
handmade copies
13 x 19 cm, 34 C-Prints
With the cooperation of Laurent Pavy for the artist book
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100 copies
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100 copies
fall line press
me. here now
Eerily seductive, these images reference a number of current hot topics in visual culture: the changing definition and parameters of photography itself; the compulsive taking, archiving, and sharing of images; the outsourcing of memory, surveillance, and the startling number of hours that are spent in isolation and in front of screens of one sort or another, every day.
Short extract of the text "THEM. THERE. THEN.", by Marvin Heiferman for the book ME. Here Now ©Marvin Heiferman 2017
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ME. Here Now
Short extract of the text "THEM. THERE. THEN.", by Marvin Heiferman for the book ME. Here Now ©Marvin Heiferman 2017
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ME. Here Now
Corinne Vionet
published by Fall Line Press in 2017
60 pages; size 340x240mm; 20 images; color; softcover with Singer binding;
ISBN 978-0-9986490-0-9.
60 pages; size 340x240mm; 20 images; color; softcover with Singer binding;
ISBN 978-0-9986490-0-9.
Essay by Marvin Heiferman, designed by Hans Gremmen.
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250 copies
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250 copies
rrose editions
souvenirs d'un glacier
Over the years, Corinne Vionnet has collected postcards of the Rhône glacier, spanning almost one century of images. Strikingly, but not so surprisingly, the pictures chosen have all been shot from the same perspective, from an "ideal" spot that reveals the glacier in its archetypal form and the roads that take us there - as is often the case with touristic attractions - a pattern of repetition and supersposition that Vionnet explored for instance in her Photo Opportunities series. There is a difference, however, between monuments as the Taj Mahal, the Rome Coliseum, the Eiffel Tower and landscapes as the Rhône glacier. The latter is not fixed in eternity.
When looking at these postcards, the artist noticed a movement: the gradual melting of the ice, the accelerated "retreat" of the glacier. What was a reflection on space became a gaze on time, or more precisely, the two dimensions intertwined in a sequence of images.
As in Vionnet's work Total Flag, the image converges gradually towards some sort of emptiness or abstraction. The pattern is loosing its significance, exhausted to the core. In other words, will we still need postcards of the Rhône glacier any longer?
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Souvenirs d'un glacier
Corinne Vionnet
Published by RRose, 2019
12 color images; size 220x330mm; Board book;
Printed at Grafiche Veneziane;
ISBN 978-2-9556712-5-2.
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200 copies.
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Kehrer verlag
Photo Opportunities
We travel, we see a monument, we take a picture. Framing sites of mass tourism in our viewfinders, we create photographic souvenirs that are integral to the touristic experience. Conducting keyword searches of famed monuments in photo sharing web sites, Swiss /French artist Corinne Vionnet culled thousands of tourists’ snapshots for her series Photo Opportunities. Weaving together numerous photographic perspectives and experiences, the artist builds her own impressionistic interpretations – ethereal structures which float gently in a dream-like haze of blue sky.
At the core of Corinne Vionnet’s artistic practice are topographical themes, namely the interaction between nature and humankind.
At the core of Corinne Vionnet’s artistic practice are topographical themes, namely the interaction between nature and humankind.
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Foreword by Madeline Yale.
published by Kehrer Verlag in 2011; 20x24cm; 80 pages, 42 images; color.
Books and special edition are SOLD OUT
published by Kehrer Verlag in 2011; 20x24cm; 80 pages, 42 images; color.
Books and special edition are SOLD OUT