Leonore Mau
Ohne Titel
Ohne Titel, 1990
From Priesterinnen
Cibachrome, 40.1 x 27.4 cm
Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur, gift George Reinhart
1993-023-001
© Leonore Mau
1916 (Leipzig, DE) – 2013 (Hamburg, DE)
After training as a press photographer, Leonore Mau discovered her true calling when she met the writer Hubert Fichte in the late 1960s. On their ethnological journeys to the Caribbean, South America and Africa, Mau concentrated on documenting Afro-American religious rites.