Welcome to Eastern Eye,Balti House,neon sign,Brick Lane,East end, London, England,UK, E1 6QL

Welcome to Eastern Eye,Balti House,neon sign,Brick Lane,East end, London, England,UK, E1 6QL Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2AE02D0

File size:

42.3 MB (1.4 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

5033 x 2935 px | 42.6 x 24.8 cm | 16.8 x 9.8 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

26 November 2019

Location:

Brick Lane, London, England, GB, E1 6QL

More information:

. Photographed at Brick Lane, London, England, GB, E1 6QL in 2019, this is a specific real-world record of the subject, its setting and the period details surrounding it. The view centres on Welcome to Eastern Eye, Balti House, neon sign, Brick Lane, East end, London, England, UK, E1 6QL. The surrounding context brings together everyday life, industrial material culture, local history, labour history, historical comparison, documentary photography, traditional building materials, contemporary social history, regional identity, working-industry history, factory history, industrial supply chain, comfort food, and place identity. For contemporary context, cultural identity and regional tourism are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes the tourism and cultural value of distinctive local cuisine. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject sits within continuing debate about labour history, construction materials and the relationship between local geology, manufacturing and the built environment. As a piece of social history, the frame preserves a particular stage in the life of the location at Brick Lane, London, England, GB, E1 6QL. A second layer of the scene includes historic manufacturing, industrial artefact, local character, engineering heritage, before-and-after reference, regional food culture, production works, and visual archive. The recorded references to House, Balti, Brick, London, and Eastern preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The period setting at Brick Lane, London, England, GB, E1 6QL helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. A further contemporary connection is cultural identity and the tourism and cultural value of distinctive local cuisine as part of the longer story of Brick Lane, London, England, GB, E1 6QL. The image fixes a local visual benchmark for later comparison.