Filing Cabinet

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
Settings
78mm · f/8.0 · 2s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A metal filing cabinet sits within the abandoned shoe factory. Its grey surface is streaked with rust and dust, holding the forgotten records of a once-active shoe production line.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Filing Cabinet
Series
Abandoned Shoe Factory
Catalogue
ASF-004
Process
Giclée
Captured
11 March 2012
Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
2s s
ISO
100
Focal length
78 mm
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size
290 × 200 mm
Location
Northcote, Victoria, Australia
Recognised by
National Trust of Australia (NSW), 2016 Heritage Award, Multimedia
02 LOCATION

Northcote, Victoria, Australia

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04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

An old filing cabinet.

Brett Patman

Abandoned Shoe Factory

The series

Abandoned Shoe Factory

2012 · 12 photographs

Shoe manufacturing began in two small buildings on Eastment Street, Northcote, before the company purchased corner land at Arthurton Road and Helen Street in 1926 and built a purpose-built factory at 13-15 Arthurton Road. By the 1970s the operation was trading as the Purnell Shoe Company; a pair of brown lace-up shoes in their original Purnell-branded cardboard box from that period sits in the State Library of Victoria's collection as call YLTTEX 198. The factory closed during the contraction of the Australian footwear industry in the 1980s and 1990s, and the site was demolished and consolidated into Lot 102 PS722836, redeveloped as a unit complex from 2016.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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