Perhaps especially because it's a crowdsourced collage of mundane snapshots that Corinne Vionnet’s montage of the gate is beautiful, though even without that backstory it's hard not to be captivated by it.



Other than to the people who photographed them, the individual photographs that make up Vionnet's image hardly hold any particular interest, or aesthetic worth. A tourist who wants a good quality photo of the Brandenburg gate would do better to purchase a picture postcard, no doubt photographed by a professional. But this isn’t only a case of an artist's aesthetic sense creating gold from dross. It's also distressing proof that we really don't need more photographs of the Brandenburg Gate.