The Framed World: Tourism, Tourists and Photography

by Mike Robinson (Editor), David Picard (Editor)

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.

275 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 1, 2009

About the author

Mike Robinson has travelled the world teaching on the topic of the real self and the illusions which keep a person trapped in their suffering. Mike only ever helps a person to look at the fact of a situation, which is the truth, and truth has no sides, no judgment and no 'right' or 'wrong', it is 'as it is' and therefore it is love in action. There is an ease and grace that flows out of this gentle man who has touched thousands of lives. Noone leaves Mike's presence unaffected by the unshakeable peace and truth that emanates from his being. For more information visit his website: www.mikerobinson.eu.com"