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Annemarie
Schwarzenbach
The
Dark Years 1937 - 1938
August
20 - August 31, 2002
Opening
Reception: Tuesday, August 20, 6 - 8 PM
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Marianne
Breslauer,
Portrait of Annemarie Schwarzenbach, 1932
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The
SI is pleased to announce the exhibition of Swiss novelist,
journalist and photographer, Annemarie Schwarzenbach. This exhibition,
curated by Barbara Lorey de Lacharriere, comprises Schwarzenbach's
work made during the years 1937 and 1938 in Europe and in the
United States. Her photographs powerfully document Eastern Europe
as it fell into the dark years of National Socialism. It was
also during these years that she made her first trip to the
United States. Schwarzenbach and her American friend, photographer
Barbara Hamilton-Wright, traveled by car along the eastern coast,
up to Maine; into the Deep South; and to the coal basins of
the industrial regions around Pittsburgh. Her photographs capture,
"The Other America": rising unemployment, massive strikes, racism
and discrimination that ruled the world of plantations of the
South, and the misery of the sharecroppers. The combination
of the European with the American photographs, show the diversity
and depth of despair and suffering during these years.
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| Schwarzenbach,
Hitler Youth, Vienna, 1938 |
Schwarzenbach,
Montgomery, Alabama, 1938 |
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Born in Zurich in 1908, Schwarzenbach died at the young age
of 34 after a bicycle accident. She is still mostly unknown
outside the German-speaking world, where she is cherished,
above all, as an author of novels and of her great travels.
She was a politically engaged writer, taking part in the resistance
against Nazism, as well as supporting Roosevelt's New Deal
and the American factory workers' struggle to form labor unions.
This exhibition will show the variety of her engagement with
these dark years of 1937-38 and will introduce American audiences
to the photographic work of this important Swiss woman.
This exhibition
has been made possible by Alizarine productions and FNAC.
The photographs appear courtesy of the Schweiz Literaturarchiv
Bern. The opening reception is made possible by the kind support
of the Consulate General of Switzerland, New York. Special
thanks to New York Central Framing.
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