ANNEMARIE SCHWARZENBACH.

February 14, 2010
1930s, Nature, Road, Textiles, The East, Women

Mongolian burial tower.

Thysville Africa

Dancing men in the jungle between Bumba and Aketi (Route Royale).

Imam Reza.

Turkestan. Bazaar: carpets from Daulatabad.

““Hazrat Ali” – tomb of the 2nd prophet.

Annemarie Schwarzenbach was a Swiss writer, journalist, traveler and photographer. In July 1939 she and ethnologist Ella Maillart drove from Switzerland to Afganistan via Istanbul in a small Ford car. An extremely organized website complied by the Swiss Literary Archive recount her travels through India, Africa, Afganistan and the American South.

via Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s travel pictures from three continents
I discovered Annemarie Schwarzenbach via Mary Manning

side note : I dressed as Annemarie Schwarzenbach for last nights – Dead Writer Party. I, too, love to drive Fords around the country and take black and white landscape photographs.