Response Essay 3

To be honest I thought the article was difficult to get through but I did think that it brought up some interesting points. Tourism photography really is an art and I had never really thought about how different it is to what we normally consider to be photography at home.

The assertion made about technology and photography I found to be particularly interesting. Garlick says “The camera, as an instrument of modern technology, can be seen as not only framing particular slices of life, but also playing a part of the enframing of the world.” This is interesting because he is talking about how the camera itself is the modern tool which relates different locations not just the technology you may be photographing.

When I am a “tourist” or when I am on a vacation to somewhere I take a lot more photos then I normally would. I also take pictures of things that are completely random such a stores, objects, or even strangers. I do this because I want to remember the experiences I had while traveling; I want to remember what made the place that I traveled to different then what I am used to while at home.

The pictures I take while traveling are completely different then those that I take while at home or school. When I am at a place that I am familiar with, such as my home, I see my surroundings almost every day. I’m not going to forget those things therefore I don’t need to take a picture to remember them. However when you are traveling you see many unfamiliar things and in order to remember those things and places you need to take pictures because you might not get to see them again otherwise.

Garlick said “Memory is crucial in the process which brings this about, and it seems necessary to acknowledge today that the visual and technological re4cording of our experiences as we travel through our lives, whether that travel is tourism or not, has a significant role to play in the production of memory and, thus, of who we are.” I wanted to include this quote because it perfectly describes why many people take photographs, especially when touring. The people and the places that we see and the experiences we have are what makes us who we are and we photograph these things to look back and clearly remember what has happened.

After I have taken my pictures I first put them onto my computer. I also put them on facebook in order to share them with others. I want to share my pictures with my friends and family so they can see the things I have seen and so they can see what I have been up to. I also make back up disks of all my photos because they mean a lot to me. They are my experiences and a memory of them.

I enjoyed treading the part of the article about traveling being an art and in a way I guess it is and as Heidegger says it is “a means of world- making.” I take that to mean that it is making the world be what it is. Traveling is a natural form of filling curiosity it helps the world to be what we know it as.