Tourists Who Shoot - Softcover

Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert; Liz Wells; Elena Stylianou

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9963706649 ISBN 13: 9789963706648

Publisher: Armida Publications Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

"Tourists Who Shoot" (2009-2012) is a contemporary, nuanced look at how tourists use their cameras while on holiday.
Influenced by the seminal work of photographer Martin Parr, "Tourists Who Shoot" offers a playful glimpse at the sometimes bizarre world of the modern tourist striving to get the perfect shot. It includes an essay by renowned photography scholar Liz Wells and color photographs by Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert.
Before the invention of the portable camera people behaved, moved and interacted differently. Tourist choreographies have evolved, and are still evolving, alongside changes in camera availability and technology. Photographer and photography theorist Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert explores tourist landscapes from New York to Cairo as performance spaces where the use of the camera has forced specific choreographies and behaviors upon tourists. With Stylianou-Lambert's deadpan sense of humor and her unerring eye for the critical detail that brings a photograph to life, "Tourists Who Shoot" is a sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant reassessment of what it means to be a tourist.

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About the Author:

Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert is an assistant professor of photography at the Cyprus University of Technology and the coordinator of the Visual Sociology and Museum Studies Lab. She earned her PhD in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester and her MA in Visual Arts from the University of Texas at Austin. She received several awards and scholarships such as an Arts and Humanities Research Council Award (UK), an A. G. Leventis Foundation Scholarship (France) and a Fulbright Scholarship (USA). Stylianou-Lambert is the editor of Re-envisioning Cyprus (2010, University of Nicosia Press) and ;Photography and Cyprus: Time, Place and Identity (forthcoming 2013, I.B.Tauris). As a photographer she has exhibited her work in a number of group and solo exhibitions in various countries.

About this edition

• Publisher: Armida Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 9963706649
• ISBN 13: 9789963706648
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 79