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100			_aThompson, Krista A. _91404
245		3	_aAn Eye for the Tropics _b: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque _c/ Krista A. Thompson
260			_aUSA; _bDuke University Press; _c2007
300			_a392p; _c21x15cm
520			_aIllustrated with more than one hundred images, including many in color, An Eye for the Tropics is a nuanced evaluation of the aesthetics of the “tropicalizing images” and their effects on Jamaica and the Bahamas. Thompson describes how representations created to project an image to the outside world altered everyday life on the islands. Hoteliers imported tropical plants to make the islands look more like the images. Many prominent tourist-oriented spaces, including hotels and famous beaches, became off-limits to the islands’ black populations, who were encouraged to act like the disciplined, loyal colonial subjects depicted in the pictures. Analyzing the work of specific photographers and artists who created tropical representations of Jamaica and the Bahamas between the 1880s and the 1930s, Thompson shows how their images differ from the English picturesque landscape tradition. Turning to the present, she examines how tropicalizing images are deconstructed in works by contemporary artists—including Christopher Cozier, David Bailey, and Irénée Shaw—at the same time that they remain a staple of postcolonial governments’ vigorous efforts to attract tourists.
546			_aEnglish
650			_aG154.9-155.8 Travel and state. Tourism _91593
650			_aTropics. _91846
651			_aCaribbean
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