Berliner sign in lights with sky behind, bar serving bier

Berliner sign in lights with sky behind, bar serving bier Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

F0XCGH

File size:

45.1 MB (1.2 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

5580 x 2823 px | 47.2 x 23.9 cm | 18.6 x 9.4 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

2 July 2015

More information:

. This scene at the recorded location in 2015 forms part of the visual history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. The photograph centres on Berliner sign in lights with sky behind, bar serving bier. The broader subject matter reaches into period detail, local character, licensed trade, urban typography, cask-beer tradition, community drinking venue, visitor hospitality, social history, changing land use, before-and-after reference, community identity, real-ale culture, visual communication, and contemporary social history. For current editorial use, tourism and consumer spending provide additional context, especially through the value of historic pubs to tourism and local identity. Current relevance extends to visual identity and local history, particularly through how signs can document commercial, social or regulatory change. Future viewers can use this scene from the recorded location to compare materials and architectural details with whatever follows after replacement signage. The surrounding story also includes hospitality economy, local social venue, night-time economy, archival record, wayfinding detail, traditional ale house, beer-led hospitality, and traditional pub. The recorded references to lights, serving, behind, and Berliner preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The photograph from the recorded location links the broader issue back to a specific real place. The wider significance includes tourism and the value of historic pubs to tourism and local identity as part of the longer story of the recorded location. Another strand within the photograph is commercial branding and the way lettering and materials contribute to local visual identity when considered against later change at the recorded location. Image F0XCGH also preserves another period-specific detail for later comparison.