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Title
A Tourist's Guide to San Diego and Tijuana: general view
Creator
Smith, Melanie (British photographer, born 1965, active in Mexico)
Rivera, Paul (photographer)
Contributor
InSITE97
Date Created and/or Issued
1997
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
inSite Archive: Selections
Rights Information
Unknown
Constraint(s) on Use: This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Use of this work beyond that allowed by "fair use" requires the written permission of the copyright holders(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and any use and distribution of this work rests exclusively with the user and not the UC San Diego Libraries. Inquiries can be made to the UC San Diego Libraries department having custody of the work.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Description
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 363)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
San Diego (Calif.)
Type
image
Format
Photographs
Form/Genre
public art
installations (visual works)
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb8672014c
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Satire (artistic device)
Border art
Parody
Information centers (facilities)
Tourism
Photography
Tourist information centers
Humor
Travel guidebooks
Postcards
Public art
Installations (visual works)
Mexican-American border region
InSITE97
Place
Mexican-American border region

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