Sunday, April 6, 2008

8 months as a tourist

I’ve realized that Florence, although unique with its own history is like any other city; growing, becoming more modernized and being shaped by different cultures. Florence has become a city built upon spectacles. Once rich for its artisans that lived and worked here, Florence is now only recognized for the reputations of those people and their marks on history they have left behind. No longer is their economy built upon their wool merchants, guilds and exports to other cities and countries, but on the spectacle and the tourists that flock in to see it.

“Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.” -Guy Debord-
-photo: Alan Lee

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