Several people at an open air food market in Kharkiv selling milk
Description
- Creator
- Wienerberger, Alexander, 1891-1955, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Text
- Item Types
- Book illustrations
- Photographs
- Description
- We see men and women at a table in the open air food market selling milk either by the glass or by the bottle. For people who were not permitted to get milk ration cards to use in official milk distribution centers, these overpriced markets were the only options available. (For a photo of an official milk rations store, see PD104: http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3636276/data)
Although private trade was considered anti-socialist, it was tolerated within often arbitrary limitations, and was crucial to the survival of many buyers and sellers during the Holodomor (Osokina, 106-7, Applebaum, 266)
Perhaps the sellers looking warily at the photographer were concerned that their photograph was being taken as evidence against them. Also, because photography of a wide range of subjects was strictly forbidden, the sellers may have been signalling disapproval or a warning to Wienerberger. SEE: Restriction of Photography section in "The Holodomor's Forbidden Photographs," accessible from the main menu.
For further information on: Availability and access to food in urban and industrial areas, see "Context Note" under Related Features at right.
- Notes
- Photo source: Ammende, Ewald, and Alexander Wienerberger. Muss Russland hungern?: Menschen- und Völkerschicksale in der Sowjetunion. Wien: W. Braumüller Universitäts-Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1935, Abb.6.
For further details and a listing of originals and versions published through 1939 with their captions, see Related Features below photo and Home page menus.
- Inscriptions
- Caption: “Auf dem Lebensmittelmarkt in Charkow: Jede Flasche Milch, krampfhaft umklammert, stellt im freien Handel einen wertvollen Besitz dar." [At the food market in Kharkiv: each tightly clutched bottle of milk is a valuable possession in free trade.]
- Date of Original
- spring-summer 1933
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- PD105
- Collection
- Alexander Wienerberger: Beyond the Innitzer album
- Language of Item
- German
- Geographic Coverage
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Kharkiv, Ukraine
Latitude: 49.98081 Longitude: 36.25272
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Copyright Holder
- Samara Pearce https://www.samarapearce.com/
- Recommended Citation
- Wienerberger, Alexander. 1933. “Auf dem Lebensmittelmarkt in Charkow:...” Muss Russland hungern? : Menschen- und Völkerschicksale in der Sowjetunion. By Ewald Ammende and Alexander Wienerberger. Wien: W. Braumüller Universitäts-Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1935, Abb.6. Retrieved from: http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3636278/data
- Location of Original
- Location of original photograph reproduced in this publication is unknown.
- Terms of Use
- Rightsholder requests that the name of the photographer, Alexander Wienerberger, accompany each authentic reproduction of his work.
- Reproduction Notes
- Reproduced with the permission of rightsholder Samara Pearce. Source: Book cited in NOTES above.
