Tourist Snapshot: The Mediating Gaze of the Sydney Opera House

Garduno Freeman, C

Tourist Snapshot: The Mediating Gaze of the Sydney Opera House

Garduno Freeman, C

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Publisher:: SAHANZ
Publication Type:: Conference Proceeding
Citation:: Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference, 2007, pp. 1 - 13
Issue Date:: 2007-01

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dc.contributor.author	Garduno Freeman, C	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Loo, S	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Bartsch, K	en_US
dc.date	2007-09-21	en_US
dc.date.issued	2007-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference, 2007, pp. 1 - 13	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	1-920927-55-7	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/2068
dc.description.abstract	There has already been much scholarly work produced about the Sydney Opera House, discussing the production of its architecture, historical and political context, and its symbolic meaning to Sydney. However little scholarly attention has been paid to the way this building is represented through tourist practices of photography. The essay attempts to bring an architectural perspective to the study of this tourist practice, which is usually addressed from the disciplines of cultural geography, sociology and anthropology. The essay considers the above questions by the analysis of some 300 images sourced from the photo sharing website Flickr (www.flickr.com). It draws on John Urry's notion of the 'tourist gaze' which describes how places are structured and regulated by the visual. The essay then uses Jonas Larsen's work, which position tourist photography as a performance of social relations to argue that the activity of photographing the Sydney Opera House is more than a ritual of consumption, and can be seen as an embodied performance located at the intersection of space, experience and image.	en_US
dc.publisher	SAHANZ	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference	en_US
dc.title	Tourist Snapshot: The Mediating Gaze of the Sydney Opera House	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
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utslib.for	1205 Urban and Regional Planning	en_US
utslib.for	1201 Architecture	en_US
dc.location.activity	Adelaide, Australia	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
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Abstract:

There has already been much scholarly work produced about the Sydney Opera House, discussing the production of its architecture, historical and political context, and its symbolic meaning to Sydney. However little scholarly attention has been paid to the way this building is represented through tourist practices of photography. The essay attempts to bring an architectural perspective to the study of this tourist practice, which is usually addressed from the disciplines of cultural geography, sociology and anthropology. The essay considers the above questions by the analysis of some 300 images sourced from the photo sharing website Flickr (www.flickr.com). It draws on John Urry's notion of the 'tourist gaze' which describes how places are structured and regulated by the visual. The essay then uses Jonas Larsen's work, which position tourist photography as a performance of social relations to argue that the activity of photographing the Sydney Opera House is more than a ritual of consumption, and can be seen as an embodied performance located at the intersection of space, experience and image.

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