Tourist photography and heritage. The case of the abandoned city of Pripyat

IF 3 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-01-09 DOI:10.1080/1743873X.2022.2161907

Anna Duda

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ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to present photography as an effective method for exploring abandoned heritage sites. The example of Pripyat – a city a few kilometres away from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant – will show the attitude of tourists towards a place which today is of undoubted cultural and historical value, but which is also an abandoned place. By means of semiotic and hermeneutic analysis of the photographs taken by tourists, a picture of Pripyat will be outlined, which has started to function anew in the cultural space thanks to, among others, tourist representations. A tourist’s gaze on Pripyat was analysed through the lens of four categories: must-see places, tourist performativity behaviours, the acts and ruin photos. In addition, the article outlines the direct relationship between the tourist imagination, photography, and heritage. Through tourist photography, the heritage is ‘reframed’ and domesticated. Photography also takes an active part in the process of making heritage by fragmenting the world and often putting them into a completely new context and narration and an example is abandoned Pripyat.

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旅游摄影和遗产。被遗弃的普里皮亚季市

摘要：本文的目的是将摄影作为一种探索废弃遗址的有效方法。普里皮亚季是一座距离切尔诺贝利核电站几公里的城市，这将表明游客对这个今天具有毋庸置疑的文化和历史价值，但也是一个废弃的地方的态度。通过对游客拍摄的照片进行符号学和解释学分析，将勾勒出一幅普里皮亚季的照片，这幅照片在文化空间中开始重新发挥作用，这要归功于游客的表现。通过四类镜头分析了一名游客对普里皮亚季的凝视：必看景点、游客的表演行为、行为和废墟照片。此外，文章还概述了游客的想象、摄影和遗产之间的直接关系。通过旅游摄影，遗产被重新定义和驯化。摄影也积极参与了创造遗产的过程，将世界分割开来，并经常将其置于一个全新的背景和叙述中，一个例子是被遗弃的普里皮亚季。

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Journal of Heritage Tourism HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Heritage Tourism ( JHT ) is a peer-reviewed, international transdisciplinary journal. JHT focuses on exploring the many facets of one of the most notable and widespread types of tourism. Heritage tourism is among the very oldest forms of travel. Activities such as visits to sites of historical importance, including built environments and urban areas, rural and agricultural landscapes, natural regions, locations where historic events occurred and places where interesting and significant living cultures dominate are all forms of heritage tourism. As such, this form of tourism dominates the industry in many parts of the world and involves millions of people. During the past 20 years, the study of tourism has become highly fragmented and specialised into various theme areas, or concentrations. Within this context, heritage tourism is one of the most commonly investigated forms of tourism, and hundreds of scholars and industry workers are involved in researching its dynamics and concepts. This academic attention has resulted in the publication of hundreds of refereed articles in various scholarly media, yet, until now there has been no journal devoted specifically to heritage tourism; Journal of Heritage Tourism was launched to fill this gap. JHT seeks to critically examine all aspects of heritage tourism. Some of the topics to be explored within the context of heritage tourism will include colonial heritage, commodification, interpretation, urban renewal, religious tourism, genealogy, patriotism, nostalgia, folklore, power, funding, contested heritage, historic sites, identity, industrial heritage, marketing, conservation, ethnicity, education and indigenous heritage.