3000 x 3468 px | 25,4 x 29,4 cm | 10 x 11,6 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
26 juillet 2015
Lieu:
Budapest, Hungary
Informations supplémentaires:
. An identifiable period record of Budapest, Hungary in 2015, retaining practical detail and local context that distinguish documentary photography from a generic illustration. The subject captured here is Magyar Posta 30 Filler Pink Red Stamp, Hungary. The wider scene also brings together changing streetscape, community identity, stamp design, public realm, historical comparison, postal artefact, place identity, local history, philatelic material, social history, changing land use, period detail, postal graphic design, and contemporary social history. The wider contemporary story combines commemoration, postal services and how stamps compress art, politics and national identity into small objects. For later comparison, the photograph preserves landscape treatment and surrounding development at Budapest, Hungary, details that may look very different after changing commercial priorities. The photograph additionally reflects postal history, paper communication, postal ephemera, archival record, collectable stamp, local character, visual archive, and before-and-after reference. References to Hungary, Posta, Magyar, Stamp, and Filler give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. For Budapest, Hungary, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The location additionally provides evidence of commemoration and the usefulness of denominations and postmarks for dating material within the real-world context of Budapest, Hungary. A further contemporary connection is national identity and the usefulness of denominations and postmarks for dating material within the specific setting of Budapest, Hungary. The wider significance includes mail history and the usefulness of denominations and postmarks for dating material as part of the longer story of Budapest, Hungary.
