{"id":2889,"date":"2019-08-28T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicola.intargetfactory.net\/nikblog\/?p=2889"},"modified":"2023-06-06T16:37:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T14:37:14","slug":"tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicola.intargetfactory.net\/nikblog\/blog\/tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourists."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Road to new travel photography.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A pose<\/strong> in front of a monument or in the most famous places of the city. Not to create a lasting memory , but to have a photo published on social media. To flaunt more than to share, to show you\u2019re having fun before you actually are . The smiles are wide; the poses and outfits are perfected. They always take more than one attempt, until the photo comes out exactly the way it should.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is the evolution of tourism at the time of social media,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>a cross-section of the human dimension that is easy to stumble upon if one knows how to observe. Through the lens I often find myself framing scenes like those of the photos I selected for this post: exuberant mothers are photographed by tired daughters, poses inspired by films, other tourists waiting for their turn to take a probably very similar photo, exactly in the same spot. The image is published immediately in order to move onto the next straightaway. In the background, the motionless beauty of the eternal city that acts as a mere frame for comments and likes, instead of being the protagonist.<\/p>\n<p>Photos are no longer used to describe one\u2019s holiday: new media platforms change people and people change their way of experiencing tourism. This is one of the themes that I am studying in the \u201cStreet Diaries\u201d project. Discover more photos from this study on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nicolatanzini\/?hl=it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Instagram<\/em><\/a> profile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Road to new travel photography. A pose in front of a monument or in the most famous places of the city. Not to create a lasting memory , but to have a photo published on social media. To flaunt more than to share, to show you\u2019re having fun before you actually are . The smiles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[24,10,23],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicola.intargetfactory.net\/nikblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicola.intargetfactory.net\/nikblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicola.intargetfactory.net\/nikblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicola.intargetfactory.net\/nikblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicola.intargetfactory.net\/nikblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2889"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nicola.intargetfactory.net\/nikblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26593,"href":"https:\/\/nicola.intargetfactory.net\/nikblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions\/26593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicola.intargetfactory.net\/nikblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicola.intargetfactory.net\/nikblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicola.intargetfactory.net\/nikblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicola.intargetfactory.net\/nikblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}