Motivated by her strong leftist beliefs, she ventured to the outskirts of Paris, London and Barcelona with a hand-held camera (very rare for a woman at that time) and captured subjects ranging from pearly queens to butchers and blind street peddlers in images now considered some of the earliest examples of ‘street photography’. Maar always saw the extraordinary in the mundane, even though she often infused it with a slightly strange, slightly gothic, uncanny atmosphere.
