5148 x 3648 px | 43,6 x 30,9 cm | 17,2 x 12,2 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
16. Oktober 2022
Ort:
York, Yorkshire, England, UK
Weitere Informationen:
. An identifiable period record of York, Yorkshire, England, UK in 2022, retaining practical detail and local context that distinguish documentary photography from a generic illustration. The subject captured here is Heavenlyfeet bee boot, bees on a grey Doc Martin boot, in a shop, York. Other connected aspects include visual archive, specialist retailer, everyday life, commercial frontage, small business, place identity, shopfront economy, documentary photography, local character, social history, bricks-and-mortar retail, retail property, contemporary social history, and public realm. The wider contemporary story combines consumer spending, commercial rents and the resilience of specialist shops in an online retail economy. The image fixes lettering, decoration and surface detail within York, Yorkshire, England, UK at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against later reinterpretation. The photograph additionally reflects high-street commerce, changing streetscape, local history, changing land use, regional identity, community identity, period detail, and customer footfall. The recorded references to Heavenlyfeet and Martin preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The period setting at York, Yorkshire, England, UK helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The setting also helps illustrate consumer spending and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses when considered against later change at York, Yorkshire, England, UK. The image also provides a reference for town-centre regeneration and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses without losing the local specificity of York, Yorkshire, England, UK. The image fixes details of everyday use for future local research. It also preserves evidence of changing use before later change alters the scene.
