Reading personal photographs
The content analysis effectively brought out that much tourist photography revolves around capturing familial social relations and choreographing tourism places into theatres of family life. In the following, five typical 'family gaze' images are analysed to shed further light upon how tourist photography is enacted and places performed to produce pleasing `familyness' of solid love in an era of fluid family life. They expose some of the significant cultural codes — the implicit collective rules — that govern photographic performances of the
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The first image (Figure 1) portraying a father and his two daughters casually and tenderly playing around at the lawn of the rented second-home is a typical example of the substantial 'residence' and 'playing bodies' images. In such pic-
tures, everyday behaviours are slightly suspended or inverted into more playful, free and sensuous ways of being together with 'loved ones' and 'material worlds'. Their attractiveness lies in the captured moments of spontaneous familial joyfulness. Juvenile bodies are caught within the frame of the second home's