BAU, Milli - Seidenstraße / Silk Road. 1956-1974

Background information

"In 1956, the journalist and photographer Emilia 'Milli' BAU set out in a VW-Bullys to explore the countries along the Silk Road. She spent a longer period of time at some locations, but only passed through others. She later lived in Tehran and worked as a correspondent.  Her Rolleiflex and her journal accompanied her on her extraordinary journey, to lands of which some can hardly still be visited today. In her photographs, it is possible to see nearly twenty years of cultural and contemporary history. The publication is a document of contemporary history by a traveling journalist who left Germany in the nineteen-fifties and found herself in the world. Milli BAU is an outstanding example of the life of a woman who should not be forgotten." (© Kerber Verlag, 2017)

Content

"The volume 'Silk Road. 1956-1974' on the journeys of the photo journalist Milli BAU, published by Julica Norouzi, contains a wealth of pictorial and textual material from three decades, staying in the Middle and Far East. Milli BAU traveled with her VW camper ('T1') the countries Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, India, China, Korea making documentary photographs with their Rolleiflex camera. The b/w pictures show not only the transport of the vehicle and the VW bus in the middle of foreign countries especially everyday life in the different countries. Diary-like texts in German and English describe what is seen and experienced." (© Richard G. SPORLEDER)

About German photo journalist, Emilia 'Milli' BAU (1906-2005)

Photo books by and on the work of Emilia 'Milli' BAU