Market day on the Hauptmarkt, Nuremberg 1937
Seen from above and then face to face: the stalls of the Hauptmarkt and a gallery of market women selling cabbages, squash, tomatoes and flowers.
From a high window the camera looks down on rows of stalls laid out across the cobbles, the spire of the Schöner Brunnen at the edge of the square, and on the scaled tiles of the old roofs. Then it goes down among the stalls and makes a gallery of portraits: an old woman in a headscarf smiling over her tomatoes, a stallholder in spectacles holding out a long squash, a woman eating soup from a pot beside her handcart, a flower seller among asters and chrysanthemums, and a laughing woman in a patterned kerchief.
The square was laid out in 1349 on the site of the Jewish quarter, destroyed in a pogrom that Emperor Charles IV had sanctioned in advance; in 1933 it was renamed Adolf-Hitler-Platz. Its gabled houses were almost all destroyed in the air raid of 2 January 1945.
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Film An old market woman in a headscarf, 1937
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