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Subject: wide-awake в странном контексте photo. Вот фрагмент текста, интересует предпоследнее предложение:. . . in a
body of work so densely populated the pictures I am most
drawn to – that most strongly draw me to them – are the ones
with no people in them, the ones, in fact, that do not look
like they are by Lange. In Lange even the loners – especially
the loners – crowd you with meaning; by virtue of the silent,
unstoppable testimony of their faces they jostle and petition.
It is a relief to get away from them, to turn to her picture of
a door with the sign day sleeper pinned on it [70]. The door
is number 1D, but it could as easily be read as ID, as if the
identity of the occupant of 1D rests entirely on the fact of
their sleeping habits. But how much information is conveyed
or suggested by that unambiguous message. day sleeper serves
as an instruction (‘Do Not Disturb’) and, implicitly, suggests
something about their employment (works nights). It seems,
at first, as if the only round things are the door knob, the
lock and the convex curve of the D; everything else consists
of sharp angles and wide-awake lines (diagonal, vertical, hori-
zontal). But then your eye returns to the weathered sign itself
which is starting to bend, heeding its own message, curling
up to sleep. Вот ссылка на фотографию, о которой идёт речь:
 Пока что я перевёл просто как "широкие линии", но хотелось бы, конечно, понять и перевести получше.
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