Tourist Photography at Niagara Falls

Wendy Nicodemus

Tourist photograph from the Cave of the Winds point of view

Postcard of American Falls

Postcard of the Maid of the Mist boats with the Falls in the background

Tourists posing for a photograph with the Falls in the background

From these photographs, you can see the tourist point of view, what the consumer views from such items as postcards, how this natural wonder captivates the tourists by the power and how many tourists appropriate themselves in front of the Falls using photography. Using such examples, I hope to show how and why people feel the need to photograph themselves with the Falls and other symbols of the Falls.