Sunday, August 16, 2015

VENICE MISCELLANY

VENICE MISCELLANY

The Selfies of Venice

If it is true that to photograph someone is to capture a bit of their soul (as some societies have believed), then Venice metaphorically has had its soul sucked out many, many times over. But these days, it is tourists’ souls which mass in forlorn invisible pieces in the City’s main thoroughfares and sites.