Visual sociology in Venezia [email_address] VENICE

How? Visual sociology on images with images Which are the visual practices of production, communication and consumption and is this city becoming a Visual Thematic Park ? THE METHODS

Visual sociology

on images

with images

Which are the visual practices of production, communication and consumption and is this city becoming a Visual Thematic Park ?

Methods Shooting Scripts - (Suchar 1997) Content Analysis ( Krippendorff 1980) Photo-elicitation (Collier 1967) Focus group (Morgan 1988) THE METHODS

Shooting Scripts - (Suchar 1997)

Content Analysis ( Krippendorff 1980)

Photo-elicitation (Collier 1967)

Focus group (Morgan 1988)

Venice: icons, symbols, replicas In the postmodern age the simulacrum precedes the original and the distinction between reality and representation break down Jean Baudrillard , Simulacra and Simulation

In the postmodern age the simulacrum precedes the original and the distinction between reality and representation break down

Jean Baudrillard , Simulacra and Simulation

Las Vegas Las Vegas - USA

Venezia “ Every year in Venice 1.500 residents move away, to free themselves from the unbearable strain of typical masks made in China and caps made in Pakistan and from an economical trend which is destroying the city’s value changing into an Amusement Park…” Newspaper “La Repubblica” 10.05.2007

“ Every year in Venice 1.500 residents move away, to free themselves from the unbearable strain of typical masks made in China and caps made in Pakistan and from an economical trend which is destroying the city’s value changing into an Amusement Park…”

Newspaper “La Repubblica” 10.05.2007

Is m ass tourism sustainable ? THE CASE STUDY: Venice

Is m ass tourism sustainable ?

62.000 residents 150.000 visitors peak time : 21 milions in a year 2/3 don’t stay overnight: “bite n’ run” = socio-economic condition delicate THE CASE STUDY: Venice

Grand Tour from 1500 to today

Grand Tour from 1500 to today

Heritage, art and fame Bellini, Carpaccio, Mantegna, Giorgione, Veronese, Tintoretto , Longhi…

Bellini, Carpaccio, Mantegna, Giorgione, Veronese, Tintoretto , Longhi…

Canaletto (1697-1768) Heritage, fame and remediation

Heritage, fame and remediation

What do they search? Tourists as signs-hunters

Signs-hunters

Signs-hunters

Signs-hunters

Gondolas - hunters

Gondolas - hunters

Giuseppe Primoli 1889 Romance

Giuseppe Primoli

1889

Romance

The tourist as a photographer Photographer

Photographer

Photographer

Photographer

Photographer

Photographer

Photographer

Photographer