“Annemarie Schwarzenbach was a great discovery. I was looking for women who wore men’s clothes in a literary, intellectual way, and came across her photo taken by Marianne Breslauer. Schwarzenbach was a Swiss journalist and archaeologist who wrote a lot of books, non-fiction and anti-Fascist novels, and took pictures all over the world. She was one of a few to visit Afghanistan in the Thirties, but she did it all in her own car – and there were no proper roads. And she almost always wore…
Olivier Saillard on 1930s Gender-Defying Journalist Annemarie Schwarzenbach
By Senta Simond
November 19, 2018 at 03:06AM
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