Today, anyone who deals with “street photography” sees a broad spectrum of social, humanist, political or documentary motivations and views, which have only one thing in common: the street . The origin of ‘street photography’ can therefore be assumed to originate from the Parisian studies Paris pittoresque and Le vieux Paris by Eugène Adget, which emerged towards the beginning of the last century. Eugène Adget documented the streets of his hometown Paris with a large 18×24 plate camera around 1900. The most important development, however, for ‘street photography’ was the invention of the compact Rolleiflex camera, developed around 1927 as a prototype of a small and fast hand camera.
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