EAN: 9783775760249

A YEAR AND A DAY UNE AN ET UN JOUR

Leonore Mau traveled for almost two decades with the writer Hubert Fichte to research
Afrodiasporic religions. Her photographs remained largely unpublished. They present us with
challenges: What does it mean to look at them today-after debates about representation and the
treatment of artistic ethnographic photographs? As a case study  A Year and A Day focuses on
Mau's pictures taken in Haiti in the 1970s during the Duvalier dictatorship. The title refers
to the cosmology of Vodou  according to which souls live under water for a year and a day
before rebirth. Artists and scientists delve deeper into the historical background and shed
light on Haiti in the 1970s  the relationship between Germany and Haiti  the photography of
rituals  and the ethics of taking picture and looking. Leonore Mau (1916-2013) began taking
photographs in Hamburg in the 1950s. From the 1960s she lived and traveled with the writer
Hubert Fichte (1935-1986).

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