4968 x 3204 px | 42,1 x 27,1 cm | 16,6 x 10,7 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
30 septembre 2022
Informations supplémentaires:
. An on-location photograph from the recorded location in 2022, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. The main point of reference is Commercial Data, spelled out in Scrabble letters, on the dictionary definition of security. The frame also records themes of local enterprise, bricks-and-mortar retail, retail property, place identity, changing land use, visual archive, local history, social history, commercial frontage, street-level business, public realm, specialist retailer, local character, and independent retail. For current editorial use, commercial rents and town-centre regeneration provide additional context, especially through the resilience of specialist shops in an online retail economy. The archival value lies partly in recording equipment and working practice around the recorded location before changing commercial priorities alters the character of the place. Other useful contextual ideas include small business, shopfront economy, everyday life, archival record, historical comparison, regional identity, high-street commerce, and period detail. Details involving Commercial, dictionary, Scrabble, definition, and spelled make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. The period setting at the recorded location helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The scene further reflects commercial rents and the resilience of specialist shops in an online retail economy within the real-world context of the recorded location. Its period value extends to business rates and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses within the specific setting of the recorded location. The record includes a point of historical comparison for future local research.
