{"id":5252,"date":"2022-05-09T14:51:31","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T12:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leonore-mau.de\/zum-werk\/"},"modified":"2022-09-19T11:53:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T09:53:42","slug":"zum-werk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/leonore-mau.de\/en\/zum-werk\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT THE WORK \/\/ THE WORK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-l77nqebj-ceb2bafb3dceaeee5374ad22c51954d6\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-l77nqebj-ceb2bafb3dceaeee5374ad22c51954d6{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-l77nqebj-ceb2bafb3dceaeee5374ad22c51954d6 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-l77nqebj-ceb2bafb3dceaeee5374ad22c51954d6 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-l77nqebj-ceb2bafb3dceaeee5374ad22c51954d6 av-special-heading-h3  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >The Work<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-l77nq2nr-37ddb77154aafe5be2258438184784a4\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-l77nq2nr-37ddb77154aafe5be2258438184784a4{\nheight:50px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-l77nq2nr-37ddb77154aafe5be2258438184784a4 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_textblock '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-l7hrtgi7-6dda5dd81a7ae50304c32725cab705d8 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h4>Rubrics and Categories<\/h4>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-l7hrt54y-83e5454062d48d73731b6e30b5f175e0\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-l7hrt54y-83e5454062d48d73731b6e30b5f175e0{\nheight:25px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-l7hrt54y-83e5454062d48d73731b6e30b5f175e0 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_one_half '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div  class='flex_column av-zcbs-ba5e1d9dfc36a64dfebcbef05d118811 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_one_half  first flex_column_div  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-l77npreh-8c37ccbad58a3942dfbe7979d68030d8 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>The photographic estate of Leonore Mau is marked by its universal compass. Nonetheless, one can determine a number of recurrent motifs and thematic clusters that have been grouped in the following overarching categories: <em>Architecture, Urban Life, People <\/em>and<em> Rituals<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Besides her architectural photographs for specialist journals and magazines, the estate also includes photographs of churches, gardens and social housing. In addition, numerous images document poverty-stricken districts such as the favelas in Brazil or the bidonvilles on the outskirts of Paris, all of which are filed here in the category <em>Precarious Relationships<\/em>. Beyond this, there are also shots of colonial architecture such as that found in the Caribbean. Mau\u2019s gaze was directed not only at edifices in their totality but also at details, as evidenced in her numerous close-ups of house fa\u00e7ades, graffiti, murals or lettering, signs and commercial posters, which are collected in their own rubric titled <em>Projects and Themes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Equally striking are Mau\u2019s photographs that have been classed under the heading <em>Urban Life<\/em>: markets, harbours, beach settings, cemeteries and street scenes which repeatedly feature shop window mannequins and reflective surfaces. Particularly worthy of attention are her milieu studies, such as those of the Jewish community in Miami or of Black people in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The rubric <em>People <\/em>offers not only portrait photographs of public figures, among which are also the shots of Hubert Fichte, her life companion and colleague, but also pictures of children and people from all over the world. Subjects of particular interest to the photographer were, among others, homeless people, amorous couples, nuns, tourists, shoe-shiners, newspaper sellers and other people busy photographing.<\/p>\n<p>There is a special section devoted to rituals and ceremonies, which include African and African-American rites, traditional healing ceremonies in Brazil, the Caribbean, the US, Venezuela and West Africa, as well as the annual carnival processions in, among other places, Haiti, Trinidad and New York.<\/p>\n<p>Assembled in a further category of its own are the images that Mau made in the context of her and Hubert Fichte\u2019s research into the \u201cpsychiatric villages\u201d in Senegal, many of which were published in the photo book <em>Psyche<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Among her final photographs are pictures that Leonore Mau took in Wuppertal in the 1990s and her series <em>Fata Morgana<\/em>, which was produced in around 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Leonore Mau photographed from the mid-1950s until the mid-2000s.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div  class='flex_column av-2cbtw-a3a68edce5dfd9f0f5681d2e38309a83 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-l7hrsp3u-f0b0415f2f79b08a0c21e0a3a62b87ca\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-l7hrsp3u-f0b0415f2f79b08a0c21e0a3a62b87ca{\nheight:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-l7hrsp3u-f0b0415f2f79b08a0c21e0a3a62b87ca hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-7  el_before_av_image  avia-builder-el-first '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-l7hs1599-5a3b13ac5aabffc34d01b7f4bd3fc2be\">\n.avia-image-container.av-l7hs1599-5a3b13ac5aabffc34d01b7f4bd3fc2be img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-l7hs1599-5a3b13ac5aabffc34d01b7f4bd3fc2be .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-l7hs1599-5a3b13ac5aabffc34d01b7f4bd3fc2be av-styling- avia-align-left  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_textblock '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-2422 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-2422 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/leonore-mau.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/70247750-300x197.jpg\" alt='' title='Ohne Titel (Kirche &quot;Unsere Dame von Fatima Chapel&quot;)'  height=\"197\" width=\"300\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leonore-mau.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/70247750-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/leonore-mau.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/70247750-600x394.jpg 600w, https:\/\/leonore-mau.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/70247750-1030x676.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/leonore-mau.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/70247750-768x504.jpg 768w, https:\/\/leonore-mau.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/70247750-705x463.jpg 705w, https:\/\/leonore-mau.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/70247750.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-l7hs4f47-44c56b00de34061c31134d7502d7c064 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock img-caption-indi'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Untitled (<em>Chapel of Our Lady of Fatima<\/em>), 1969<br \/>\n\u00a9 bpk \/ S. Fischer Stiftung \/ Leonore Mau<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-l7hsc31c-22c80e076f7891f2b592fdc2a86b3ae8\">\n.avia-image-container.av-l7hsc31c-22c80e076f7891f2b592fdc2a86b3ae8 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-l7hsc31c-22c80e076f7891f2b592fdc2a86b3ae8 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-l7hsc31c-22c80e076f7891f2b592fdc2a86b3ae8 av-styling- avia-align-left  avia-builder-el-10  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-2591 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-2591 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/leonore-mau.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/70367518-300x212.jpg\" alt='' title='Ohne Titel (Wasseraltar der Indianerg\u00f6ttin Maria Lionza)'  height=\"212\" width=\"300\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leonore-mau.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/70367518-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/leonore-mau.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/70367518-600x423.jpg 600w, https:\/\/leonore-mau.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/70367518-1030x726.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/leonore-mau.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/70367518-768x541.jpg 768w, https:\/\/leonore-mau.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/70367518-260x185.jpg 260w, https:\/\/leonore-mau.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/70367518-705x497.jpg 705w, https:\/\/leonore-mau.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/70367518.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-l7hsddau-91f6560ea5869eaf5b97be75d6452568 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock img-caption-indi'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Untitled (A statue of the goddess Maria Lionza in Sorte), 1977<br \/>\n\u00a9 bpk \/ S. Fischer Stiftung \/ Leonore Mau<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-l7hrvipi-88f8c9bb7a34e4496a45654666d65505\">\n.avia-image-container.av-l7hrvipi-88f8c9bb7a34e4496a45654666d65505 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-l7hrvipi-88f8c9bb7a34e4496a45654666d65505 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-l7hrvipi-88f8c9bb7a34e4496a45654666d65505 av-styling- avia-align-left  avia-builder-el-12  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-2461 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-2461 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/leonore-mau.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/70353602-300x196.jpg\" alt='' title='Ohne Titel (Carnival)'  height=\"196\" width=\"300\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leonore-mau.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/70353602-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/leonore-mau.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/70353602-600x392.jpg 600w, https:\/\/leonore-mau.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/70353602-1030x672.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/leonore-mau.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/70353602-768x501.jpg 768w, https:\/\/leonore-mau.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/70353602-705x460.jpg 705w, https:\/\/leonore-mau.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/70353602.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-l7hrx7as-d7629488263a706686b05944cddad2a0 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock img-caption-indi'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Untitled (Man in the golden costume), 1979<br \/>\n\u00a9 bpk \/ S. 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