[Leica] Street photography

["Erwin Puts" <imxputs@knoware.nl>]

My state of mental health has been questioned when I cited that the
Rolleiflex and the Speed Graphlex were good instruments for outstanding
street and documentary photography.
If photographic history is a guide, I may mention Boubat, Doisneau, van der
Elsken as exemplary street photographers with Rolleicord and Rolleiflex,
with a quality of dynamics and available light scenes than many a
contemporary Leica photographer would have put to a challenge.
For larger format photography the history is even longer, spanning from
Lewis Hine (Graphlex) to  Walker Evans (4x5 inch) to Weegee (Graphlex),
Berenice Abbott, August Sander, to the Japanese Araki with a 6x7 camera.
I do not deny the excellence of the 35mm format for this type, but my
reference was meant to broaden the perspective.

Erwin