Worn disabled sign on pathway

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Contributor:
Tony SmithImage ID:
2K41KRTFile size:
57.1 MB (3.5 MB Compressed download)Releases:
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5472 x 3648 px | 46.3 x 30.9 cm | 18.2 x 12.2 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
3 March 2019More information:
. This authentic period view of the recorded location in 2019 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The location is represented through Worn disabled sign on pathway. Another layer of the photograph includes period lettering, public-facing signage, community identity, instructional wording, documentary photography, changing streetscape, historical comparison, public information notice, graphic street detail, urban typography, everyday visual culture, public realm, before-and-after reference, and archival record. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with street design, commercial branding and the survival of physical messages in an increasingly digital environment. Future viewers can use this scene from the recorded location to compare equipment and working practice with whatever follows after new construction. The location also brings in contemporary social history, printed message, historic sign, street-level message, wayfinding detail, visual archive, local history, and visual communication. Details involving disabled and pathway make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. The wider setting at the recorded location matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. A further contemporary connection is street design and the survival of physical messages in an increasingly digital environment within the specific setting of the recorded location. The wider significance includes visual identity and how ordinary signs become time-specific evidence of language and design as part of the longer story of the recorded location. Another strand within the photograph is commercial branding and how signs can document commercial, social or regulatory change when considered against later change at the recorded location.