An Eye for the Tropics Tourism, Photography, And Framing the Caribbean Picturesque

Name: An Eye for the Tropics
Author: Nicholas Thomas

Auteur: Krista A. Thompson

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Krista A. Thompson Nicholas Thomas

Co-auteur: Krista A. Thompson

Engels
Paperback
9780822337645
15 maart 2007
366 pagina's

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A beautifully illustrated look at the aesthetics and implications of the visual images used to sell Jamaica and the Bahamas to tourists as "tropical paradises" from the 1880s through the 1930s.

Images of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical paradises full of palm trees, white sandy beaches, and inviting warm water seem timeless. Surprisingly, the origins of those images can be traced back to the roots of the islands’ tourism industry in the 1880s. As Krista A. Thompson explains, in the late nineteenth century, tourism promoters, backed by British colonial administrators, began to market Jamaica and the Bahamas as picturesque “tropical” paradises. They hired photographers and artists to create carefully crafted representations, which then circulated internationally via postcards and illustrated guides and lectures.

Illustrated with more than one hundred images, including many in color, An Eye for the Tropics is a nuanced evaluation of the aesthetics of the “tropicalizing images” and their effects on Jamaica and the Bahamas. Thompson describes how representations created to project an image to the outside world altered everyday life on the islands. Hoteliers imported tropical plants to make the islands look more like the images. Many prominent tourist-oriented spaces, including hotels and famous beaches, became off-limits to the islands’ black populations, who were encouraged to act like the disciplined, loyal colonial subjects depicted in the pictures.

Analyzing the work of specific photographers and artists who created tropical representations of Jamaica and the Bahamas between the 1880s and the 1930s, Thompson shows how their images differ from the English picturesque landscape tradition. Turning to the present, she examines how tropicalizing images are deconstructed in works by contemporary artists—including Christopher Cozier, David Bailey, and Irénée Shaw—at the same time that they remain a staple of postcolonial governments’ vigorous efforts to attract tourists.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 15 maart 2007
Aantal pagina's: 366
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Hoofdauteur: Krista A. Thompson
Tweede Auteur: Nicholas Thomas
Co Auteur: Krista A. Thompson
Hoofduitgeverij: Duke University Press

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Originele titel: An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque

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Product breedte: 178 mm
Product hoogte: 25 mm
Product lengte: 210 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 178 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 25 mm
Verpakking lengte: 210 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 839 g

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Taal: Engels
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Periode: ca. 1800-1910
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