Postcards from Auschwitz. Daniel P. Reynolds

of the gaze reminds us that tourism, to the extent it is a visual practice, is inextricably bound up with an ethical problem that situates our own pleasure in close proximity to our regard for others. Photography is one way the tourist enters this ethically challenged terrain, linking entertainment with obligation to others. Tourists take pictures not only for fun but also to find a sense of proximity to the other, to make real what has been presented as extraordinary.10