Tuesday 22 July 2014

Corfu: The Tourist Gaze (after Foucault and Urry); Photographs



"People gaze upon the world through a particular filter of ideas, skills, desires and expectations, framed by social class, gender, nationality, age and education" ( John Urry and Jonas Larsen, The Tourist Gaze 3.0, p 2) . The authors were referring to John Berger's "Ways of Seeing".


The romantic gaze? The anthropological gaze? The eye of power or the reverse gaze?












Religious Tourism from Russia





Vlaherena Monastery gift shop.

The commercializaton and "trinketization" of culture


Outside Palaiokastritsa Monastery













Saint Spyridon





The reciprocal or reverse gaze,
Lakones, 1950s
(Photographer uncredited)


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