Street photographers proliferated in the 1930s alongside the development of hand-held precision cameras that made it easier for photographers to work outdoors. But in 1939 street photographers were linked to German spies after Walter Ladendorf, the manager of a Sydney street photography firm and head of the Nazis in Australia, was arrested. Soon after the war finished, Pix magazine photographer Norman Herfort took this photo in a series of candid shots of fashionable women that mimicked the street photographers’ style.