Glasgow Christmas Festive Lights at dusk, People Make Glasgow, George Square, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, G2 1AL

Glasgow Christmas Festive Lights at dusk, People Make Glasgow, George Square, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, G2 1AL Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2AAEJ16

File size:

32.8 MB (1.8 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

3360 x 3408 px | 28.4 x 28.9 cm | 11.2 x 11.4 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

18 November 2019

Location:

Glasgow City, Glasgow City, Scotland, UK, G2 1DU,

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. An authentic period view of Glasgow City, Glasgow City, Scotland, UK, G2 1DU, in 2019, showing a subject whose value extends beyond the immediate scene into local history and changing social context. The photograph records Glasgow Christmas Festive Lights at dusk, People Make Glasgow, George Square, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, G2 1AL. The surrounding context brings together period detail, contemporary social history, traditional masonry, social history, regional identity, documentary photography, changing land use, community identity, urban fabric, historic frontage, visual archive, historic townscape, everyday life, and period building. The subject remains useful for current coverage of historic townscape and adaptive reuse, not least because of the contrast between preservation and redevelopment. For place-based research, the view leaves evidence of a particular stage in the life of the location at Glasgow City, Glasgow City, Scotland, UK, G2 1DU, . The subject sits alongside public realm, cityscape history, conservation interest, heritage asset, archival record, local character, before-and-after reference, and historic context. References to People, Square, Scotland, Festive, and Christmas help fix the photograph to its own subject and period rather than reducing it to a generic view. The period setting at Glasgow City, Glasgow City, Scotland, UK, G2 1DU, helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. Another strand within the photograph is historic townscape and the contrast between preservation and redevelopment as part of the longer story of Glasgow City, Glasgow City, Scotland, UK, G2 1DU, . The image also provides a reference for adaptive reuse and the role of distinctive architecture in local identity when considered against later change at Glasgow City, Glasgow City, Scotland, UK, G2 1DU, . That local specificity strengthens the long-term documentary value of image 2AAEJ16.