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When Travel Becomes a Performance: What The Spectacle Reveals About Modern Tourism
A line of tourists waits patiently at the edge of a cliff. One by one, each person steps forward, positions themselves in the exact same spot, raises their phone, captures the moment, and then steps aside for the next person. For a brief second in the frame, it looks like solitude—a lone traveler standing at the edge of the world. But just outside the frame, twenty more people are waiting to take the exact same photo. This is one of the most striking scenes portrayed in "The
Stefan Liautaud
May 14 min read
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