4768 x 3648 px | 40,4 x 30,9 cm | 15,9 x 12,2 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
30 settembre 2022
Altre informazioni:
. Recorded at the recorded location in 2022, the image fixes a recognisable subject and its environment at one point in time, giving later viewers a reliable basis for comparison. The main point of reference is Personal Data, spelled out in Scrabble letters, on the dictionary definition of security. Further facets of the scene include local enterprise, high-street commerce, social history, place identity, bricks-and-mortar retail, public realm, small business, specialist retailer, local history, period detail, local character, changing land use, commercial frontage, and town-centre trading. Current relevance extends to town-centre regeneration and footfall, particularly through the resilience of specialist shops in an online retail economy. As a dated visual record of the recorded location, the frame retains landscape treatment and surrounding development, making it especially useful if changed technology subsequently changes the scene. The surrounding story also includes shopfront economy, community identity, customer footfall, changing streetscape, independent retail, documentary photography, contemporary social history, and regional identity. Details involving spelled, Personal, letters, definition, and security make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. Around the recorded location, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. A further contemporary connection is town-centre regeneration and the resilience of specialist shops in an online retail economy as part of the longer story of the recorded location. The wider significance includes consumer spending and how commercial property costs affect small retailers when considered against later change at the recorded location. The frame retains a local visual benchmark within the wider story of the recorded location.
