ABSTRACT

This chapter explores the effect of the depiction of places in film and photography on place authenticity. The popularity of the camera has been linked inextricably with the growth of tourism and photography is one of the integral ways in which people process places and practice 'everyday aestheticisation'. The chapter examines photography, place and tourism, discussing how the performance of authenticity is apparent in the staged and unstaged composition of images. It discusses photography, revealing different aspects of authenticity formed by bubbles of multiple realities. The chapter discusses notions of mass-reproduction, an understanding of which is key to any discussion of filmed and photographed places. It focuses on to film location tourism, where multiple realities are at work: for example, places substituting as others on film shoots or being romanticised or memorialised by their status as film locations.