Oxford Street Profile
Philip Quirk
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Oxford Street Profile (OSP) is a visual narrative of a Sydney street.
How do we relate to the streets we are most familiar with? I believe people use the street for their specific needs, whether it is for business, pleasure, shopping or traversing the suburbs. They become familiar with the street and presume it will remain the same, but change is inevitable and ongoing. OSP argues that the more we use our streets, the less we see them as they are.
In 2009 I set out to photograph every building on both sides of Oxford Street from Queen Street, Woollahra to Taylor Square, Darlinghurst. The purpose of this documentation is to observe Oxford Street from street level, to note the transient human interaction on the street, and to record the street as it is in the early years of the 21st century.
OSP is about a Sydney street today, which will be relevant to future generations considering the built environment and the evolving nature of streets like Oxford Street. OSP links the fundamental structures of the street, defining their spatial relationships in a typology and is a functional example of a place in time.
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