4032 x 3024 px | 34,1 x 25,6 cm | 13,4 x 10,1 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
28 avril 2018
Informations supplémentaires:
. An identifiable period record of the recorded location in 2018, retaining the practical detail and local context that distinguish a documentary photograph from a generic illustration. The subject captured here is Maplins Warrington Store Closing. The subject also carries associations with high-street commerce, historical comparison, social history, regional identity, retail property, public realm, changing streetscape, town-centre economy, visual archive, documentary photography, customer footfall, changing land use, local history, and archival record. Current relevance extends to commercial rents and store closures, particularly through how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses and branding. Future viewers can use this scene from the recorded location to compare materials and architectural details with whatever follows after later reinterpretation. The location also brings in commercial frontage, local enterprise, local trading, shopfront economy, independent retail, place identity, period detail, and everyday life. Details involving Maplins, Store, and Closing make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. The documentary value of MGMJTF rests in the precise visual record of Maplins Warrington Store Closing, including small period details that may not survive in later examples. The setting also helps illustrate commercial rents and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses and branding within the specific setting of the recorded location. The image also provides a reference for store closures and the role of small retailers in maintaining active town centres as part of the longer story of the recorded location. Another useful connection is independent business and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses and branding when considered against later change at the recorded location.
