A famine victim lies dead against a cement barrier in Kharkiv
Description
- Creator
- Wienerberger, Alexander, 1891-1955, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Text
- Item Types
- Photographs
- Photograph albums
- Description
- Wienerberger presents a close-up view of a man whom he identifies as dead lying against an unfinished section of sidewalk or road. He lies covered by his coat and a hat or bundle of some kind at his head, shielding his face. His outstretched leg is barefoot, with the ankle bandaged. Most likely from the countryside, he was one of countless migrants from the starving farms and villages who came to the city in search of employment or access to food, and found neither.
For further information on: The fate of Ukraine's rural migrants in the cities, 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 Unpublished and undated album in the private collection of Samara Pearce.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.12b.
For further information and a listing of originals and versions published through 1939 with their captions, see Related Features at right. - Inscriptions
- Handwritten caption on photo: “Hungerleiche auf der Strasse” [Body of a famine victim on the street]
- Date of Original
- spring-summer 1933
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 23cm
Image Height: 17cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- PD121
- 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. “Hungerleiche auf der Strasse.” Das Arbeiterparadies. U.d.S.S.R. (also known as the Red Album). Private collection of Samara Pearce, n.d. p.12b. Retrieved from: http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3636303/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.
