Monday, July 18, 2011

Sharing Tacky Travel Photos

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What to do with those photos of you “holding up” the Leaning Tower of Pisa or posing as Anne of Green Gables?

You could send them to the web site specially dedicated to tacky vacation photos, Tackytouristphotos.com.

But as one of the web site’s curators, Darren Garnick told Here & Now‘s Monica Brady-Myerov, “we use the word tacky as a compliment.Really what we mean is goofy, or funny or kitschy…people having fun with their vacation.”

Fellow curator Ilya Mirman and his friends took a series of tacky photos at the Eiffel Tower: making the Parisian landmark look like a dunce hat or a post to lean on. However, Ilya adds they didn’t do it out of disrespect, but all in fun, in fact, Parisians watching gave ideas, suggested ways to take the shots and helped clear space for the wide views required.

This segment originally aired on 8/19/10.

Guests:

  • Darren Garnick & Ilya Mirman, curators of Tacky Tourist Photos
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We welcome comments from all of our listeners. Post below. Please stay on topic and be civil. Comments may be moderated by us, but you are solely responsible for the content of your comments.

  • Vera Keller

    They should have the Tacky Photo show at the Museum of Bad Art

    http://www.museumofbadart.org/

  • http://www.facebook.com/darren.garnick Darren Garnick

    Vera, we love the Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) and link to it as a “friend” of TTP. Their Website is fun, too: http://www.museumofbadart.org/

  • http://www.facebook.com/darren.garnick Darren Garnick

    We’d love to see some photos from Here & Now listeners!  Please email your favorite (and goofiest) tourist poses to tackytouristphotos@gmail.com

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