To look slowly: articulations between sociology and photography on the study of photographic touristic practices in Porto
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Sociology of Tourism, Photography, Ethnography, Touristic HeritageAbstract
This paper analyzes long exposure photography as a data colletion method in sociology and tourism studies. Relating tourism ordering (macro), touristic imaginaries (meso) and tourists’ gazes (micro) according to logics of power, structuring and aggregation, the touristic phenomenon is here analyzed on the interactional scale. We know that tourism integrates models of symbolic (re)valuing of places that use photography in its promotion as touristic destinations, and that despite all the multisensory external influences the subjects are agents in the construction of their touristic experience and of their own touristic imaginary. Therefore, a qualitative methodology was adopted which uses long exposure photography as part of ethnography to observe the dynamics of occupation and use of places in a touristic context. From the case study analyzed, the notion that the touristic imaginary is mostly formed during the experience of the tourist in the place emerges, within which photographic practice plays an important role. Its study highlights that between the ordering of the tourist’s experience and the gaze he/she forms during it builds his/her touristic imaginary, which is composed by symbolic dimensions and subjective impressions that surface on his/her discourses and on his/her touristic performance on the place, accessible through photography and through words.
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