As Tibet Erupted, China Wavered - New York Times
“In Lhasa during the recent riots, a tourist who requested anonymity took this photo of Chinese goods being burned.” (from the photo caption on the NYT website)
In the midst of the riots in Lhasa, tourists are filling in with eye-witness accounts where the media has been banned. An interesting twist on the lens of the tourist gaze.
3 years agoJeff Scher’s animated assemblage of postcard imagery in remembrance of a friend. Thanks Leslie
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Smithsonian Magazine | Arts & Culture | Behind the Veil
Ireland’s Travellers, a nomadic ethnic minority, photographed by Alen MacWeeney.
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Thorpe township, Hubbard County, Minnesota (MN) Detailed Profile
I’ve been looking at a lot of travel magazines as part of an assignment for my Thesis Writing Workshop. The similarity in the ways that destinations are depicted in these publications made me curious about what the most ‘boring’ city in the world might be. What would be the absolute converse destination to Paris? According to this survey on at Answerbag.com, Thorpe Township, MN, population 37 (as of the 2000 census) takes the cake. As the respondant put it, ‘When I drove through it in 1984. there were two mobile homes, a grain elevator, and a gas pump.’ What sort of imagery or icons might there be of a place like this? Perhaps it would be fun to do a case study of Thorpe through the tourist lens.
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This and much more in one person’s basement collection of tourism ephemera.
Found in Mom’s Basement: Vintage airline travel posters
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There were 10 dogs on my flight to Portland yesterday. The flight was delayed to ensure that all were safe and sound in the cargo hold.
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