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    America Through Foreign Eyes: The U.S. Photojournalism of Annemarie Schwarzenbach, 1936-1941

    America Through Foreign Eyes by Schwarzenbach, Sibyl Ann;

    The U.S. Photojournalism of Annemarie Schwarzenbach, 1936-1941

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    • Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
    • Date of Publication 23 July 2025
    • Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book

    • ISBN 9783031783012
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages250 pages
    • Size 210x148 mm
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 30 Illustrations, black & white
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    This book collects over 20 original essays and a selection of photographs by the famous Swiss writer and photographer, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, from her time spent travelling in the United States during the late 1930s and early 40s. After a rediscovery of her work in Europe almost 50 years after her tragic death at age 34, Annemarie Schwarzenbach became a cultural icon and an emerging heroine of the early LGBT movement. Against a European background of interwar economic uncertainty, political turmoil and burgeoning fascism, Schwarzenbach carefully studied America?s underbelly during the late Depression, at a time of Jim Crow and the height of the US labor movement. Schwarzenbach traveled across the U.S., reporting on its cities and people, visiting factories and steel mills, and speaking with union leaders: at the headquarters of John Lewis in Pittsburg, for instance, or with Myles Horton at the Highlander Folkschool. She interviewed well-known personages like Dorothy Thompson and Carson McCullers, but equally focused her attention on textile workers and African Americans. Much like a female twentieth-century Alexis de Tocqueville, Schwarzenbach?s ambivalence regarding what she saw during her travels? her horror, but also her begrudging admiration for, and even hope in, America and its peculiar brand of democracy ? are carefully recorded and translated here in English for the first time ever, along with a critical introduction to her life and work.

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    This book collects over 20 original essays and a selection of photographs by the famous Swiss writer and photographer, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, from her time spent travelling in the United States during the late 1930s and early 40s. After a rediscovery of her work in Europe almost 50 years after her tragic death at age 34, Annemarie Schwarzenbach became a cultural icon and an emerging heroine of the early LGBT movement. Against a European background of interwar economic uncertainty, political turmoil and burgeoning fascism, Schwarzenbach carefully studied America?s underbelly during the late Depression, at a time of Jim Crow and the height of the US labor movement. Schwarzenbach traveled across the U.S., reporting on its cities and people, visiting factories and steel mills, and speaking with union leaders: at the headquarters of John Lewis in Pittsburg, for instance, or with Myles Horton at the Highlander Folkschool. She interviewed well-known personages like Dorothy Thompson and Carson McCullers, but equally focused her attention on textile workers and African Americans. Much like a female twentieth-century Alexis de Tocqueville, Schwarzenbach?s ambivalence regarding what she saw during her travels? her horror, but also her begrudging admiration for, and even hope in, America and its peculiar brand of democracy ? are carefully recorded and translated here in English for the first time ever, along with a critical introduction to her life and work.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction by Sibyl Schwarzenbach.- Part One: Method: AS on Writing & Photography Mss. Pages.- 1. Interview without a Reporter.- 2. Photographs as Documents.- Part Two: USA 1936 -1937: First Impressions: The End of American Optimism?.- 3. Rediscovery of America.- 4. The End of American Optimism?.- 5. Paper mills & Small Farms in Maine.- 6. The Radio Priest.- 7. Beyond New York.- 8. Unknown Washington.- 9. The Journey to Pittsburg: America?s Iron City.- 10. The Question of Democracy American Style.-Part Three: USA 1937-1938: Heading South: Labor & Race Relations.- 11. In the Shadows of Knoxville.- 12. A Farmhouse, Workers and Farmers in the Mountains of Tennessee.- 13. Aline Bryant, Textile Worker.- 14. In the Cumberland Mountains.- 15. Strike in Lumberton, North Carolina.- 16. The Cotton Belt.- 17. ?in the Name of Southern Honor.- Part Four: USA 1940-41: War & the Final Visit.- 18. Westwards.- 19. American Journal: The Worlds Fair.- 20. Carson McCullers: Hope for America.- 21. On Dorothy Thompson.- 22. White Plains.- Conclusion.- Notes.- Bibliography.

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