5. Photography
Thurs., Nov. 6
Post #5: Photography: Write about photographic representations of place. You could take some photographs around NYC and post them on Flickr or another photo web site, then write something about travel photography and link to your flickr collection. Or you can take a look at online photographs of the place you're going and write about them; make links to the source page for each photograph you reference in your post, and include one or two in the post. The basic idea is to look at how the place you're going (or NYC) is represented in photographs, and to think about what these images convey in terms of the "essence" of the place, its iconography, etc. In your post, try referring to one or more of the articles to help ground your observations in the scholarly discourse on sightseeing, photography and travel, and the tourist gaze. Jenkins' article provides an analytic framework for studying tourist imagery that may be helpful.
Read:
- Olivia Jenkins, "Photography and travel brochures: the circle of representation"
- Mike Crang, "Picturing practices: research through the tourist gaze"
- Optional: Judith Adler, "Origins of Sightseeing"
- Optional: Orvar Lvfgren, "Looking for Sights," pp. 14 - 40, from On Holiday: A History of Vacationing: (available in the NYU ebrary)
