Marianne Breslauer (married name Feilchenfeldt; 20 November 1909 – 7 February 2001) was a German photographer, photojournalist and pioneer of street photography[1] during the Weimar Republic.
She took lessons in photography at Lette-Verein in Berlin from 1927 to 1929, and she admired the work of the then well-known portrait photographer Frieda Riess and later of the Hungarian André Kertész.
In 1929, she travelled to Paris, where she briefly became a pupil of Man Ray,[2] whom she met through Helen Hessel, a fashion correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung and family friend.
Her earlier work in Paris, encouraged by the surrealist photographer Man Ray, focused on the homeless along the river Seine.
[3] Her portraits show influence from the photographic experiments of Bauhaus students and the contemporary style Neues Sehen.