LIFEGUARD
an ancient craft for tourism
through images of 'Stock Photo
Catholic Holy Cross City Gallery 23 July to 30 August 2010
open from 20 to 23 Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday
free admission - info 0541 966 603 www.cattolica.net
in collaboration with Ocean Encounters
press release opens Friday, July 23, 2010 at the Galleria Comunale S. Cross Catholic Church in Via Pascoli 21 at 21, the photographic exhibition Lifeguards, an ancient craft for tourism through the images of the Photographic Centre's multi-cultural, organized by the Institution's Cultural Queen.
fotoriprodotte Over seventy historic photographs tell the story of the birth and the first bathing and men and women who have built with the management and the organization of services on the bathing beach.
events and characters come together in a long account of vision that sees more than a century, a new profession - that of a lifeguard - old crafts transplantation.
The role of the beach as a place of leisure, recreation and health is becoming fundamental in the construction of a new form of holiday and leisure use since the late nineteenth century. Catholic And like other cities of the coast was one of the protagonists and the pioneer. The caregiver
already at the dawn of the bather bathing seasons, the protection and health practices at sea during balneotherapy of tourists gradually supplant the activities of small coastal fishing practiced small vessels downstream and continued by lifeguards during the first season does not travel in the winter and autumn. Then the main activity, that of beach services, the classification of the rescue services, the emergence of increasingly diverse and comfortable facilities took over and led to the emergence of a category of seasonal workers increasingly known and accredited. A story
Adriatic its success and the economic fortune of the entire coastline thanks to the tenacity and often the sympathy of rough characters who have left their mark in the memory and holiday resort of dozens of foreigners and tourists.
The exhibition aims to explore the complex world of the lifeguards, in a time span ranging from 1900 to the 60s: the faces and personalities, behaviors more typical, the main activities such as saving. Testimonials
visual storytelling to unite and contribute to the construction of a common history. The retrieval of images and their storage and cataloging are a source of pride for the cultural facilities cattolichine. This is due mostly to the availability of willing citizens and tourists, including foreigners, who have permission to reproduce their albums private so as to allow the construction of many micro premises on which it was possible to weave the social history of the city.
