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Sculpture and Installations For her inSITE97 project, Melanie Smith created "The Tourists' Guide to San Diego and Tijuana/La Guia turistica de San Diego y Tijuana," an installation at 958 Fifth Avenue in downtown San Diego. A spoof on a tourist information agency, the installation included, among other elements, large photographs of the region, postcards with commonly found imagery from the local landscape and city, and a tourist guidebook listing on the back the various hot spots in the city. The installation was a commentary on the massive tourism industry in San Diego and Tijuana and the loss of borders when dealing with consumers and their material desires. --inSITE97 Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 06, Item 364) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. San Diego (Calif.)
Type
image
Format
Photographs
Form/Genre
installations (visual works) public art
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb5429665c
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Travel guidebooks Postcards Photography Satire (artistic device) Tourist information centers Border art Information centers (facilities) Tourism Parody Humor Installations (visual works) Public art Mexican-American border region InSITE97
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