5016 x 3096 px | 42,5 x 26,2 cm | 16,7 x 10,3 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
26 octobre 2022
Lieu:
Wigan, Lancashire, England, UK
Informations supplémentaires:
. Recorded at Wigan, Lancashire, England, UK in 2022, the image fixes a recognisable subject and its environment at one point in time, giving later viewers a reliable basis for comparison. The subject captured here is Wigan Lancashire Pie Burger, a steak or Meat pie on a oven bottom muffin. The setting additionally reflects public realm, regional food culture, before-and-after reference, visual archive, regional identity, period detail, place identity, local character, changing land use, documentary photography, everyday life, contemporary social history, community identity, and street food culture. The modern context includes continuing discussion of changing diets, hospitality costs and the pressure of food and energy prices on small hospitality businesses. The image fixes materials and architectural details within Wigan, Lancashire, England, UK at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against changed technology. Further associations within the scene are archival record, food-and-drink heritage, comfort food, local dining tradition, changing streetscape, traditional takeaway, local history, and hospitality food service. The combination of Wigan, Lancashire, bottom, Burger, and muffin anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. The wider setting at Wigan, Lancashire, England, UK matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The location additionally provides evidence of changing diets and the pressure of food and energy prices on small hospitality businesses as part of the longer story of Wigan, Lancashire, England, UK. A further contemporary connection is changing diets and how familiar dishes remain cultural shorthand for British food when considered against later change at Wigan, Lancashire, England, UK. The photograph keeps evidence of earlier appearance before later change alters the scene.
