City fragments and tourist imaginary. The myth of Torremolinos
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Images play an essential role in the transmission and reception of cities, as a sign and symbol capable of mediating the perception, behavior and desire of the viewer. The graphic element participates decisively in tourism experiences especially, not only for the visitor, but for the local inhabitant.
From a contemporary reading, inserted in the mass and technological culture, we use images from the cultural productions linked to tourism on the Costa del Sol to reveal a barely recognized past that we transfer to the present for its recognition.
The cinematographic, literary or advertising images act as fragments - instantaneous and obsolescent- through which to understand and reconstruct the cultural sequence of the territory that served them as support, in this case the town of Torremolinos and the tourist phenomenon that impregnated it in the Sixties and Seventies of the last century.