? Photograph by Edith Tudor-Hart
Caledonian Market, London
Photographed about 1931
Caledonian Market was one of the largest flea-markets in London during the 1930s. It was popular with photographers as it offered easy access to a lively aspect of the city?s working-class culture. Fellow exiles such as Bill Brandt and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy also photographed there, perhaps because it provided an echo of a complex street life commonplace on the Continent. Tudor-Hart published a photo essay about Caledonian Market in the illustrated magazine `Der Kuckuck? in 1931 titled `The Market of Naked Misery?. As she wrote, ?of all the working-class districts in Europe?s great cities, those in London are the bleakest?. Here, the focus is on the dynamic between the three central figures.
