better left unsaid

I love this art-deco sig­nage. You can find it here and there in down­town Hal­i­fax. I might make it a lit­tle project of mine to pho­to­graph all the exam­ples I find dur­ing my wan­der­ing. Being fairly new to Hal­i­fax, I’m not sure what the pre­vi­ous name of the build­ing was, but it appar­ently was not agree­able enough for the cur­rent own­ers, hence the miss­ing let­ter­ing. Too bad, but I’m glad they at least left this obvi­ous exam­ple. If I was more of an appre­ci­a­tor of the obvi­ous — an obvi­ist? — and less of a typophile I think I’d be tak­ing a dif­fer­ent type of inter­est in this.

Here’s a Google Street View of the corner:

There’s a larger ver­sion if you’re interested.

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Cam­era: Mamiya 6 medium-format rangefinder
Lens: Mamiya 75mm
Fil­ter: none
Film: 400TX exposed at 320
Devel­oper: Rod­i­nal 1+50
Devel­op­ment: Small tank for 116 and a half min­utes at 20 degrees Cel­sius. Agi­ta­tion was an ini­tial five inver­sions, then two inver­sions every minute.
Date: Decem­ber, 2009
Loca­tion: 44.646510,-63.572802
Copy­right: 2009 Chris Jones. All rights reserved.

Tags: architecture · blackandwhite · halifax · mamiya6 · mediumformat · novascotia · street · typography
Posted in: Photographs

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