Corfu: The Tourist Gaze (after Foucault and Urry); Photographs

"People gaze upon the world through a particular filter of ideas, skills, desires and expectations, framed by social class, gender, nationality, age and education" ( John Urry and Jonas Larsen, The Tourist Gaze 3.0, p 2) . The authors were referring to John Berger's "Ways of Seeing".

The romantic gaze? The anthropological gaze? The eye of power or the reverse gaze?

Religious Tourism from Russia

Vlaherena Monastery gift shop.

The commercializaton and "trinketization" of culture

Outside Palaiokastritsa Monastery

Saint Spyridon

The reciprocal or reverse gaze,
Lakones, 1950s
(Photographer uncredited)