干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): Orientalist reveries: The imaginary creative constructions of the Moroccan space and place by the figures of the non-Muslim male traveller and female tourist - from travel literature to photography and contemporary fashion imagery

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DOI	10.1386/fspc.6.1.7_1
	Orientalist reveries: The imaginary creative constructions of the Moroccan space and place by the figures of the non-Muslim male traveller and female tourist - from travel literature to photography and contemporary fashion imagery
	Doron, Itai
通讯作者	Doron, I
来源期刊	FASHION STYLE & POPULAR CULTURE
ISSN	2050-0726
EISSN	2050-0734
出版年	2019
卷号	6 期号:1 页码:7-30
英文摘要	In this body of research and original photographic work to which it responds, I examine the position and connotation of Morocco as a site for artistic inspiration in travel literature, photography and fashion photography in the context of three main themes relating to its imaginary constructions: Orientalism; the western male traveller in contradistinction to the female tourist; and the figure of the cultured flaneur. These themes became associated with European industrialization and imperialism towards the end of the nineteenth century, and the research draws links between this particular period of culture and its values, and our present day, romantic fascination with Morocco, and the revival of such themes and their popular reincarnation in contemporary fashion editorials. The article investigates the role that photography has played in the development of twenty-first century Orientalism and its manifestation in visual fashion storytelling, and the interplay between artist-subjectlocation: how does the western traveller/photographer view both himself and others in the process of picturing the Maghreb and what are the kinds of relationships and tensions that develop between the traveller/photographer and the North African sites that he observes? The research focuses on the long association between travel and sexual adventure and explores the literary and visual narratives involving the figures of the contemporary traveller and tourist in the North African space and place, and how adventurer and location feed off one another. By examining the appropriation of such figures and motifs from art and literature into contemporary photography of travel and fashion photography, the article aims to consider the visual representation and specific propositions of locations such as Tangier, Marrakesh, Assilah and the Moroccan Sahara as chaotic, dangerous and alien, and understand the complex, post-Orientalist rendition of the North African space and visual culture within the context of fashion photography. More specifically this article poses the following questions: why does our western culture want or need to revisit condescending Orientalist fantasies and an imperialist mode of representation? And in what way are the tropes of Orientalist representation tied to the fantasies, desires and anxieties that the fashion industry and its consumer engage with? The article takes Morocco's strong ties with western cultural figures as its starting point, and in times of intense political and social unrest in the Arab world - the continuing fascination with and promotion of this Muslim country as a sensual tourist destination by fashion editorial and ad campaign shoots. The article considers two photography monographs by western male travellers/photographers shooting photographic bodies of work in a foreign Islamic country: Paul Bowles' How Could I Send a Picture into the Desert (Bowles and Bischoff 1994) and Harry Gruyaert's Morocco (1990), in addition to several case studies from literature (Peter Mayne, Elias Canetti); photography (Irving Penn, Daido Moriyama); and contemporary fashion editorial work (William Klein, Jack Pierson, Azim Haidaryan, Inez Van Lamsweerde/Vinoodh Matadin, Mario Testino, Hans Feurer, Steven Meisel and Daniel Riera). It aims to establish links between the visual representation of travel and the context of gender, fashion, identity and sexuality and the psychological dimension of tourism.
英文关键词	fashion photography flanerie Morocco Orientalism spectatorship tourism
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	ESCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000450308500002
WOS类目	Humanities, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向	Arts & Humanities - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/333392
作者单位	[Doron, Itai] Univ Arts London, Fash Media Programme, London Coll Fash, London, England
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Doron, Itai. Orientalist reveries: The imaginary creative constructions of the Moroccan space and place by the figures of the non-Muslim male traveller and female tourist - from travel literature to photography and contemporary fashion imagery[J],2019,6(1):7-30.
APA	Doron, Itai.(2019).Orientalist reveries: The imaginary creative constructions of the Moroccan space and place by the figures of the non-Muslim male traveller and female tourist - from travel literature to photography and contemporary fashion imagery.FASHION STYLE & POPULAR CULTURE,6(1),7-30.
MLA	Doron, Itai."Orientalist reveries: The imaginary creative constructions of the Moroccan space and place by the figures of the non-Muslim male traveller and female tourist - from travel literature to photography and contemporary fashion imagery".FASHION STYLE & POPULAR CULTURE 6.1(2019):7-30.

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