On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> i would >> think if a Moroccan or a resident of Fez were the photographer here, >> the kind of pictures (and the kind of discussions you would get > about >> the pictures) would be totally different wouldn't it? > > Yes, I completely agree. I live in the most popular tourist place in > Britain and my photographs of the place are very different from the > tourists' photos. This is to be expected. An analogy: when I went to > the Kruger NP in South Africa I got very excited seeing lions and > giraffes and water buffalo, whereas to my hosts they were rather > humdrum - what excited them were things like dung beetles. The > resident and the tourist perspective are entirely different.
absolutely. except that the dominant image of London in the popular consciousness, the world at large or whatever is much more representative of the 'real' London. and the dominant image of places like Fez tends to be that of the tourists. which view of a place gets privileged as the 'real' one (the native's or the tourist's) takes us, i guess, to other imbalances... :-) regards, subash -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
