The Family Gaze  

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Haldrup, Michael ; Larsen, Jonas

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Tourist Studies vol. 3 no. 1 (Apr. 2005), page 23–45.
Topik: family life performance photography 'tourist gaze' visual methodologies
Fulltext: 23TS31.pdf (594.4KB)

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Despite the fact that taking photographs is an emblematic tourist practice and that tourist studies have been dominated by a visual paradigm of gazing, little sustained research has explored the general connections between tourism and popular photography. We have virtually no knowledge of why and how tourists produce photographic images. This article reframes the study of visual culture by stressing the sociality, reflexivity and embodied performances of tourist photography. Instead of portraying the shooting gazer as a disembodied and passive spectator, we view tourist photography as a theatre of life where people in concert perform places, scripts and roles to and for themselves. Whereas existing literatures 'write out' tourists and their actual practices, interpretations and emotions, tourists' own photographic images and the meanings and desires that tourists inscribe and ascribe to such productions are explored. The analyses show that much tourist photography revolves around producing social relations rather than 'consuming places'. We bring the performing family into tourist studies through the notion of the 'the family gaze' that captures how family photography practices are socially organized and systematized. Rather than being directed at extraordinary 'material worlds', the ‘family gaze' is concerned with the 'extraordinary ordinariness' of intimate 'social worlds'.

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