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TOURISM & PHOTOGRAPHY: STILL VISIONS - CHANGING LIVES
20-23 July 2003
Sheffield Hallam UniversitySheffield, United Kingdom  

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 places and
shape lives? How are photos used to define people and
territories? How do locals negotiate photographic
images of themselves? 

This is the second call for abstracts for TOURISM &
PHOTOGRAPHY: STILL VISIONS - CHANGING LIVES hosted by
Centre for Tourism & Cultural Change and School of
Cultural Studies at Sheffield Hallam University on
20-23 July 2003. Contributions to explore the
relationship of tourism and photography are welcome
from a variety of disciplines including art history,
photography, media studies, tourism marketing &
planning, sociology, anthropology, history,
aesthetics, psychology, geography, political sciences,
landscape theory, etc.   

Themes of interest to the conference include:
- Through the Lens: Camera 
- Tourist Relationships- Photographic Pioneers in the
Evolution of Tourist Destinations
- Inventing and Re-inventing Landscapes for Tourism-
Photography in Destination Marketing Strategy
- Framing Beauty for Visitors
- Commercial Photography and the Tourist Brochure
- Photographs as Triggers for Tourist Memory
- Representing Places, Peoples and Pasts
- Negotiating Cultural Identity
- Resisting the Captured Image 

We are delighted to have received a wide range of
abstracts from international scholars covering the
historic, anthropological, economic, political and
aesthetic dimensions of the tourism-photography
interrelationship including (selection): 
-'A Visual Discourse of Colonial Travels in the
Orient' by P. Burns (UK)
-'Photography and Tourism on the Great Barrier Reef'
by C. Pocock (Australia)
-'Great Photographic Journeys of the 19th century' by
J. Hannavy (UK)
-'The Bulimic Consumption Of Pygmies: Regurgitating An
Image Of Otherness', by S. Frankland (UK)
-'The Work of E.O. Hoppé (Picturesque Great Britain)'
by B. Stokoe (UK)
-'Photographic Representations of Istanbul as a
Touristic Space' by A. Kirklar (Turkey)
-'The Influence of Touristic Photographs on Life of
Minority Groups in Vietnam' by L.H. Ly (Vietnam)
-'Identity Construction Through Travel and Photographs
for American Jewish Youth' by R. Sobel & R. Chalfen
(USA)
-'Representations of the Male Body for the Queer
Tourist Gaze' by I. Wellard-'Photographic Behaviour on
the Sepik River' by C. Palmer & J.-A. Lester (UK)
-'Roland Barthes's Photographic Metalanguage' by F.
Amundsen (New Zealand)
-'Photographing Dark Tourism Sites' by M. Piekarz (UK)
-'Tourism Photography and the Symbolic Economy of Sea
Turtles in the Indian Ocean' by V. Lilette (France)
-'Discourse and Power in Images of Prehistory' by J.
Blain, R. Wallis & A. Letcher (UK)
-'Constructing the Tourist Landscape Through
Archaeological Heritage in Ireland' by K. Costa (USA) 
-'Ecological Implications of Tourist Photography in
the Jasper National Park' by K. Cronin (Canada)
-'Digital Discourses: Reproduction and Reconsumption
of Backpacker Tourism Imagery in Fiji' by I. Ateljevic
& S. Doorne (Fiji)
-'Commercial Tourist Brochure Photography of Jamaica'
by K. Wilkes (UK)
-'Photography and the Reinvention of the Image of
South-Australia' by J. James & D.V. Wald (Australia) 

We are also pleased to announce that photographer
MARTIN PARR will give one of the keynote presentations
focusing on his own work on tourism/tourists.  The
conference will as well comprise a stimulating social
programme including a conference dinner in the Peak
District National Park and a study visit to the
National Film and Photography Museum in Bradford.  We
are also planning to host a special meeting of RC 50
(Sociology of International Tourism) of the
International Sociological Association (ISA) as a part
of this conference. 

You can still send your abstract (300 words) along
with your full name & postal / electronic address
until 15st April 2003 to David Picard
([log in to unmask]).  
Dr. David Picard
Centre for Tourism & Cultural Change
Sheffield Hallam University
City Campus - Howard Street
Sheffield S1 1WB, UK 

More information on this conference including a
registration form soon at:
http://www.tourism-culture.com (online Easter 2003).

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