Person
John Urry
Sociologist who introduced the tourist gaze, describing how travel is organised around images anticipated before arrival and reproduced on return.
Writing that references this work:
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Double Exposure: How Kyoto and I Became Each Other’s Props
In Kyoto, tourists arrive with pictures already in mind, and the city adapts to help produce them. Photographing that circuit critically does not place me outside it. It makes my…
