4000 x 2680 px | 33,9 x 22,7 cm | 13,3 x 8,9 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
29 aprile 2014
Ubicazione:
Great Britain, UK
Altre informazioni:
. Made at Great Britain, UK in 2014, this photograph records a real place and subject in context, allowing later viewers to compare what has survived, changed, closed, moved or been replaced. The image documents Octopus Testing Oldham Armature Mfg Co instruments, testing kit, dials and meters, Amperes, Amps, Ampmeter, Amp Metre. Another layer of the scene includes public realm, historic frontage, adaptive reuse, community identity, everyday life, local history, historic townscape, urban fabric, conservation architecture, period streetscape, historic commercial architecture, changing land use, social history, and visual archive. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject sits within continuing debate about adaptive reuse, embodied carbon and the contrast between preservation and redevelopment. For place-based research, the frame records signage, materials, design and everyday use within Great Britain, UK. Further connections include local character, documentary photography, historic context, cityscape history, period building, built heritage, archival record, and architectural detailing. The combination of Metre, instruments, meters, Octopus, and Oldham anchors the image to a recognisable activity, place or moment. Around Great Britain, UK, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The location additionally provides evidence of adaptive reuse and the role of distinctive architecture in local identity when considered against later change at Great Britain, UK. A further contemporary connection is heritage conservation and the role of distinctive architecture in local identity without losing the local specificity of Great Britain, UK. The wider significance includes maintenance costs and reusing existing buildings rather than demolishing them in a form that can be compared with future views of Great Britain, UK.
