Woman with a handful of small fish at an open-air marketplace in Kharkiv
Description
- Creator
- Wienerberger, Alexander, 1891-1955, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Text
- Item Types
- Photographs
- Photograph albums
- Description
- We see a solitary woman seated on one of the benches that are set up alongside the market area. Looking weary, and perhaps resentful or wary, she stares back at the photographer. The captions state that she is offering to sell four small dried fish “on the black market.” The caption from his memoir, Hart auf hart, adds that the price is a highly inflated 2 rubles.
There are many people in the background where goods are also being sold or traded. One woman at the edge of the crowd is barefoot though she wears a heavy coat.
Individuals selling items at highly inflated prices to those who couldn't get them through officially approved channels was commonplace. 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)
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: Wienerberger, Alexander. Das Arbeiterparadies. U.d.S.S.R. (also known as the Red Album). Unpublished and undated album in the private collection of Samara Pearce. p.6b.
For further details and a listing of originals and versions published through 1939 with their captions, see Related Features on the right. - Inscriptions
- Handwritten caption on photo: “Schleichhandel in Russland” [Black-marketeering in Russia]; additional handwritten caption on album page under photo: “4 getrocknete Fischlein (‘Wobla’) sind ihre ganze Handelsware.” [4 little dried fish (Wobla) are her only merchandise.]
- Date of Original
- spring-summer 1933
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 23
Image Height: 17
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- PD117
- 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. “Schleichhandel in Russland.” Das Arbeiterparadies. U.d.S.S.R. (also known as the Red Album). Private collection of Samara Pearce, n.d. p.6b. Retrieved from: http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3636298/data
- Location of Original
- Private collection of Samara Pearce. Please contact Ms. Pearce for reproductions from the original.
- 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: Private collection of Samara Pearce.
