Les Halles at night in rue Baltard. A view of the market scene taken from a vantage point on the top of a lorry which was parked right up against a pavilion. Several "diables" - wooden and metal barrows - are in the foreground, loaded with wooden boxes, crates and mesh sacks ready to be moved. Outside the Baltard pavilions in the area known as the carreau forain everything changes very quickly. Photographer Harold Chapman recalls that "everything happens so quickly in the market. If you arrive without knowing it at the end of one series of things, another immediately starts before you have time to work out what is happening. They weren't slouches - Les Halles workers were fantastic, speedy and hard working." In a matter of seconds the whole scene would change, boxes of fruit and vegetables would be stacked and arranged in the street for the buyers and customers. Rue Baltard, Quartier des Halles, 1er arrondissement, Right Bank, Paris, France, circa 1960s.