Photographs create visual narratives of experiences, places, peoples and objects that collectively and individually comprise the tourist gaze. Photography is acknowledged as having an important role in the determining of places and spaces, the construction and re-construction of identities, and the invention and re-invention of histories. So why do tourists take photos of certain things and not of others? Why do tourists take photos at all? How do photos build places, how do they change and shape lives? An interdisciplinary team of contributors from across the globe explore such questions as they examine the relationships between photography and tourism and tourists.
Contents: Moments, magic and memories: photographing tourists, tourist photographs and making worlds, Mike Robinson and David Picard; Imaging and imagining Pueblo people in Northern New Mexico tourism, Matthew J. Martinez and Patricia C. Albers; Ancient Greek theatres as visual images of Greekness, Vassiliki Lalioti; The accidental tourist: NGOs, photography, and the idea of Africa, Brian Cohen and Ilyssa Manspeizer; The bulimic consumption of pygmies: regurgitating an image of otherness, Stan Frankland; Photographing race: the discourse and performance of tourist stereotypes, Elvi Whittaker; From images to imaginaries: tourist advertisements and the conjuring of reality, Teresa E.P. Delfin; The camera as global vampire: the distorted mirror of photography in remote Indonesia and elsewhere, Janet Hoskins; Re-viewing the past: discourse and power in images of prehistory, Andy Letcher, Jenny Blain and Robert J. Wallis; Entwined histories: photography and tourism at the Great Barrier Reef, Celmara Pocock; The embodiment of sociability through the tourist camera, Joyce Hsiu-yen Yeh; Disposable camera snapshots: interviewing tourists in the field, Elisabeth Brandin; Connecting cultural identity and place through tourist photography: American Jewish youth on a first field trip to Israel, Rebekah Sobel; The purloined eye: revisiting the tourist gaze from a phenomenological perspective, Marie-Françoise Lanfant; Index.
