5104 x 3440 px | 43,2 x 29,1 cm | 17 x 11,5 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
26 octobre 2022
Lieu:
Wigan, Lancashire, England, UK
Informations supplémentaires:
. This dated editorial view of Wigan, Lancashire, England, UK in 2022 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The photograph centres on Wigan Lancashire Pie Burger, a steak or Meat pie on a oven bottom muffin. The broader subject matter reaches into documentary photography, street food culture, regional food culture, comfort food, everyday life, everyday cuisine, social history, hospitality food service, British food tradition, period detail, food-and-drink heritage, traditional takeaway, local history, and local dining tradition. Current relevance extends to local business and takeaway culture, particularly through the pressure of food and energy prices on small hospitality businesses. As a dated visual record of Wigan, Lancashire, England, UK, the frame retains landscape treatment and surrounding development, making it especially useful if redevelopment subsequently changes the scene. The wider setting retains connections with classic British meal, place identity, regional identity, community identity, public realm, changing streetscape, popular cuisine, and food heritage. References to steak, bottom, Wigan, Burger, and Lancashire give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. 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 wider significance includes local business and the pressure of food and energy prices on small hospitality businesses within the real-world context of Wigan, Lancashire, England, UK. Another strand within the photograph is takeaway culture and how food signs and shopfronts become part of urban cultural identity within the specific setting of Wigan, Lancashire, England, UK. The frame retains a point of historical comparison within the wider story of Wigan, Lancashire, England, UK.
