An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque (Objects/Histories) - Softcover

Thompson, Krista A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822337649 ISBN 13: 9780822337645

Publisher: Duke University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Images of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical paradises full of palm trees, white sandy beaches, and inviting warm water seem timeless. Surprisingly, the origins of those images can be traced back to the roots of the islands’ tourism industry in the 1880s. As Krista A. Thompson explains, in the late nineteenth century, tourism promoters, backed by British colonial administrators, began to market Jamaica and the Bahamas as picturesque...

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"Krista A. Thompson masterfully uses early-twentieth-century postcards to show how social, political, and racial issues are embedded in postcard imagery, while simultaneously analyzing current collecting practices. She makes substantial new and intriguing contributions to the understanding not simply of the historical tropicalization of the islands but of the persistence of such propagandistic attitudes in the economic survival of the islands today."--Judith Bettelheim, Professor of Art and...

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About the Author

Krista A. Thompson is Assistant Professor of Art History and African American Studies at Northwestern University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0822337649
• ISBN 13: 9780822337645
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 392