3648 x 2736 px | 30,9 x 23,2 cm | 12,2 x 9,1 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
18 juin 2011
Lieu:
Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
Informations supplémentaires:
. An authentic period record of Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, retaining the practical visual detail that later redevelopment, rebranding or altered use can remove. The view specifically shows Victorian Inkpots, ink, pots, writing, England, UK. The wider scene also brings together documentary photography, social history, visual archive, historic workplace, factory equipment, changing streetscape, production machinery, community identity, local history, factory-floor equipment, place identity, engineering history, industrial artefact, and contemporary history. Today's wider story includes manufacturing history, adaptive reuse and the practical question of finding new uses for substantial older industrial buildings. For later comparison, the photograph preserves materials and construction at Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK, details that may look very different after new construction. Other connected aspects are industrial archaeology, manufacturing infrastructure, regional identity, historical comparison, public realm, urban change, labour history, and everyday Britain. References to writing, Inkpots, and Victorian give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to the named subject. The period setting at Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. Another strand within the photograph is manufacturing history and keeping evidence of working practices that have disappeared without losing the local specificity of Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK. The scene retains a connection with reuse of mills and warehouses and finding new uses for substantial older industrial buildings in a form that can be compared with future views of Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK. The frame therefore remains a dated reference for Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK and the changing story of the subject shown.
