A mix of UK craft beer labels, stuck to a wall, as wallpaper

A mix of UK craft beer labels, stuck to a wall, as wallpaper Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2M69CF3

File size:

57.1 MB (2.7 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

5472 x 3648 px | 46.3 x 30.9 cm | 18.2 x 12.2 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

30 December 2022

Location:

United Kingdom

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. Made at United Kingdom in 2022, this photograph records a real place and moment, preserving details that may later be altered by redevelopment, rebranding, changing ownership or different public use. The subject captured here is A mix of UK craft beer labels, stuck to a wall, as wallpaper. The image also relates to regional identity, public information notice, night-time economy, licensed trade, traditional pub, local character, period advertising, commercial signage, public-facing notice, visitor hospitality, documentary photography, street-level marketing, contemporary social history, and food-and-drink business. The wider contemporary story combines pub closures, consumer spending and pressure on hospitality margins in a high-cost economy. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with commercial competition, retail change and the speed at which branding and promotional styles change. For later comparison, the photograph preserves local activity and public use at United Kingdom, details that may look very different after redevelopment. Other useful contextual ideas include place identity, visual archive, changing streetscape, historic signage, shop display, changing land use, everyday life, and brand communication. The recorded references to labels, wallpaper, stuck, and craft preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The wider setting at United Kingdom matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The wider significance includes pub closures and how food, drink and heritage combine in destination pubs in a form that can be compared with future views of United Kingdom. Another strand within the photograph is consumer culture and how signs and displays become time-specific records of commercial language within the real-world context of United Kingdom.