November 2007
13 posts
“Our spoons are one of our indispensable possessions here. To lose one’s spoon...”
– South: the story of Shackleton’s last, by Sir Ernest Shackleton (chapter5)
Icy Rescue as Seas Claim a Cruise Ship - New York... →
Tourists following in Shackleton’s wake. via Jessie
“The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has...”
– Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914), U.S. historian. The Image, ch. 3 (1961). via NYSH&TA
“The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the...”
– Max Lerner (b. 1902), U.S. author, columnist. repr. in The Unfinished Country, pt. 1 (1959). “Lo, the Poor Sightseer,” New York Post (Sept. 15, 1954) via NYSH&TA
“To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don’t...”
– Don Delillo, from James Axton, in The Names, ch. 3 (1982), via Mary-Jo
“The tourist certainly yearns for the authentic—and tourism fuels that desire. In...”
– Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, ‘Suit Case Studies: The Production of a National Past,’ p. 34
'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical... →
“Souvenirs are collected by individuals, by tourists, while sights are...”
– Dean MacCannell, The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class, p. 42
"When I Actually Saw it for the First Time" - a... →
A visual interpretation of “The Ethnomethodology of Sightseers,” from The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class by Dean MacCannell using my photographs from Pisa as punctuation. //For Anne West’s Thesis Writing Workshop, Fall 2007 Our movement through the world is comprised of a series of temporal transactions. Bound by time and space, our experience of place is fleeting and...