We're living in a golden age for photography. You go to New York; you take a picture. You go to London; you take a picture. You go to Los Angeles; you take a picture. You go home and upload those pictures to the internet, where they live forever with thousands of other equally miserable and nearly identical pictures of the same landmarks and tourist attractions. Corinne Vionnet takes those boring pictures and mashes them all together into something worth looking at.

Vionnet, whose work is on display now at Chelsea's Danziger Gallery, began scouring photo-sharing sites for such bland documents of tourism in 2005. According to Vionnet's artist's statement, each of the works in her Photo Opportunities series is composed of at least 100 found photos layered digitally.

If impressionist painters sought to capture the world as it appears in fleeting glances, Vionnet's compositions do the opposite. Each of her source images is concrete, etched forever into a hard drive. But when combined, they take on impressionism's heady impermanence.

As a consequence of Vionnet's layer technique, they also look a lot like those ubiquitous "the average face of XYZ country" photos.

Like those averaged-face photos, Vionnet's works are near-perfect pieces of viral content, intentionally or not. They're visually striking and conceptually easy to grasp, and as such, they do really well on Tumblr. Fittingly, images designed to comment on internet ephemera become internet ephemera themselves.

If you're interested in seeing Vionnet's works IRL, you can do so at Danziger Gallery, where they'll be showing until February 7.

[Images via Danziger Gallery]