5472 x 3648 px | 46,3 x 30,9 cm | 18,2 x 12,2 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
11 giugno 2022
Ubicazione:
Pier Head Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L3 1HN
Altre informazioni:
. A grounded documentary photograph made at Pier Head Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L3 1HN in 2022, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. At the centre of the view is Historic Mersey Tunnel exhaust, Pier Head Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L3 1HN. Further facets of the scene include architectural character, traditional holiday town, heritage asset, documentary photography, seaside retail, everyday life, coastal leisure, built heritage, social history, architectural detailing, tourism retail, resort heritage, conservation architecture, and heritage landmark. The modern context includes continuing discussion of planning control, local identity and the tension between conservation and redevelopment. For current editorial use, domestic tourism and weather dependence provide additional context, especially through the vulnerability of resort economies to seasonality and changing visitor habits. The archival value lies partly in recording signage and branding around Pier Head Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L3 1HN before changed technology alters the character of the place. The subject also sits alongside visual archive, local history, British seaside culture, local landmark, before-and-after reference, historic streetscape, changing land use, and period streetscape. References to Mersey, Tunnel, Liverpool, Merseyside, and exhaust give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. For Pier Head Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L3 1HN, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. A further contemporary connection is planning control and the tension between conservation and redevelopment as part of the longer story of Pier Head Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L3 1HN.
