George Street
George Street is a series of photographs of the facades of buildings along this historic street in Oxford. The photographs are flat, frontal views with limited expressive effects. They have the appearance of architectural drawings and in keeping with this analogy a legend is included on each print, with details of the address, the current occupants and the nature of the businesses trading there in Victorian times (extracted from the 1896/7 Kelly’s Directory). The form of presentation encourages the viewer to look carefully at the architecture and the social and cultural influences enacted on it. This is in sharp contrast to the way in which people generally pay little attention to the buildings around them as they hurry about their daily lives.
George Street will be exhibited as part of '[( 6 )] go to Oxford' Exhibition at the Oxford Riverside Gallery, Oxford Nova Scotia from 21st October until 4th November 2016
George Street is a series of photographs of the facades of buildings along this historic street in Oxford. The photographs are flat, frontal views with limited expressive effects. They have the appearance of architectural drawings and in keeping with this analogy a legend is included on each print, with details of the address, the current occupants and the nature of the businesses trading there in Victorian times (extracted from the 1896/7 Kelly’s Directory). The form of presentation encourages the viewer to look carefully at the architecture and the social and cultural influences enacted on it. This is in sharp contrast to the way in which people generally pay little attention to the buildings around them as they hurry about their daily lives.
George Street will be exhibited as part of '[( 6 )] go to Oxford' Exhibition at the Oxford Riverside Gallery, Oxford Nova Scotia from 21st October until 4th November 2016
