3584 x 4919 px | 30,3 x 41,6 cm | 11,9 x 16,4 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
2. August 2022
Weitere Informationen:
. A grounded documentary photograph made at the recorded location in 2022, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The defining feature is Warrington Town Centre looking west towards Fiddlers Ferry, Penketh and Widnes, Cheshire, England, UK. Another layer of the photograph includes local enterprise, town-centre economy, public realm, specialist retailer, community identity, customer footfall, regional identity, changing streetscape, street-level business, historical comparison, high-street commerce, bricks-and-mortar retail, archival record, and shopfront economy. Today's relevance is strengthened by online shopping, town-centre regeneration and the continuing question of the resilience of independent shops in an online retail economy. Future viewers can use this scene from the recorded location to compare lettering, decoration and surface detail with whatever follows after changed technology. Other useful contextual ideas include visual archive, local trading, changing land use, retail property, local history, commercial streetscape, before-and-after reference, and independent retail. References to Penketh, towards, looking, Widnes, and Ferry give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. 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. Another strand within the photograph is online shopping and the resilience of independent shops in an online retail economy without losing the local specificity of the recorded location. The setting also helps illustrate footfall and the resilience of independent shops in an online retail economy in a form that can be compared with future views of the recorded location. The period view preserves details of everyday use within the wider story of the recorded location.
