Digbeth Dozen,Deep Eye,Graffiti urban street art,in Floodgate St,Digbeth,Bordesley & Highgate,Birmingham,West Midlands,England,UK,B5 5ST

Digbeth Dozen,Deep Eye,Graffiti urban street art,in Floodgate St,Digbeth,Bordesley & Highgate,Birmingham,West Midlands,England,UK,B5 5ST Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2AERPJ2

File size:

53.9 MB (3.8 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

5160 x 3648 px | 43.7 x 30.9 cm | 17.2 x 12.2 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

19 October 2019

Location:

Floodgate St,Digbeth, Birmingham,West Midlands,England,UK, B5 5ST

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. This location-based editorial photograph from Floodgate St, Digbeth, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B5 5ST in 2019 preserves a recognisable subject together with clues about how the place was used and presented at the time. The main subject is Digbeth Dozen, Deep Eye, Graffiti urban street art, in Floodgate St, Digbeth, Bordesley & Highgate, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B5 5ST. A broader reading of the scene brings in period detail, historic townscape, built heritage, social history, local history, regional identity, documentary photography, period building, contemporary social history, place identity, archival record, everyday life, before-and-after reference, and cityscape history. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject sits within continuing debate about adaptive reuse, historic townscape and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their character. For local-history research, the view leaves evidence of the relationship between the subject and its surroundings around Floodgate St, Digbeth, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B5 5ST. Other useful associations include changing streetscape, historic frontage, urban fabric, historic commercial architecture, public realm, conservation interest, historic context, and changing land use. Elements such as Graffiti, Birmingham, urban, Dozen, and Midlands add documentary specificity and may become more useful when compared with later records. The surrounding context at Floodgate St, Digbeth, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B5 5ST matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The location additionally provides evidence of adaptive reuse and the contrast between preservation and redevelopment within the real-world context of Floodgate St, Digbeth, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B5 5ST. The scene captures evidence of changing use for later comparison.