Michael Ellis
Andrew W. Mellon Undergraduate Fellow in the Humanities
2006—2007 Forum on Travel
Michael Ellis
Linguistics
College '07
Wonderlands: Through the Traveling Lens
with Di Hu
Travel photographs are a hallmark of modern tourism. It is well known that people with different purposes for traveling take different pictures. Yet no one has systematically analyzed that difference. What do photos reveal about the reasons why people travel today—business or pleasure, conquering places or self-discovery? This survey and exhibition will consider what such things as the size of the subject in the photo, where the subject is situated, and how it is oriented can reveal about those differences.