4896 x 3324 px | 41,5 x 28,1 cm | 16,3 x 11,1 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
30 settembre 2022
Altre informazioni:
. An identifiable period record of the recorded location in 2022, retaining practical detail and local context that distinguish documentary photography from a generic illustration. At the centre of the view is Customer Data, spelled out in Scrabble letters, on the dictionary definition of security. Another layer of the photograph includes local character, contemporary social history, visual archive, independent retail, documentary photography, specialist retailer, customer footfall, public realm, historical comparison, local history, everyday life, small business, archival record, and high-street commerce. The modern context includes continuing discussion of consumer spending, online shopping and how commercial property costs affect small retailers. As a dated visual record of the recorded location, the frame retains equipment and working practice, making it especially useful if refurbishment subsequently changes the scene. Further associations within the scene are period detail, changing streetscape, local enterprise, commercial frontage, shopfront economy, street-level business, place identity, and before-and-after reference. Details involving security, spelled, Customer, dictionary, and letters make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. By fixing the subject within the recorded location, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. The location additionally provides evidence of consumer spending and the resilience of specialist shops in an online retail economy when considered against later change at the recorded location. A further contemporary connection is footfall and the contribution of independents to distinctive high streets without losing the local specificity of the recorded location. The photograph keeps a trace of local identity as a date-specific reference.
