Investigative Journalism: Annemarie Schwarzenbach and American photographer Barbara Hamilton-Wright on a Mission
SCHWARZENBACH: “Kleiden Sie sich unauffällig.
Halten Sie nicht beständig eine Leika ans Auge
gedrückt. Lassen Sie Ihren Ford nicht zu oft waschen!”
“‘Dress so that you do not stick out. Don’t hold
your Leika camera in front of your face all the time.
Don’t have your Ford washed too often!’
These were the last instructions I received in
Washington prior to leaving for the coal-mining
regions in the Allegheny Mountains and for the
‘steel city’ Pittsburgh, the mighty steel-making
center of the United States.”
“My American colleague and I read Davenport‘s article when we were in
Chattanooga, an industrial city in the state of Tennessee. Soon thereafter
we had the opportunity to scrutinize whether Davenport‘s accusations
were true and accurate. We had a Ford 8, two Rolleiflex-cameras, and
three weeks of time at our disposal when we got on our way to find out
what is truly going on today in the American South.”
Investigative Journalism: Annemarie Schwarzenbach and American photographer Barbara Hamilton-Wright on a Mission
SCHWARZENBACH: “Kleiden Sie sich unauffällig.
Halten Sie nicht beständig eine Leika ans Auge
gedrückt. Lassen Sie Ihren Ford nicht zu oft waschen!”
“‘Dress so that you do not stick out. Don’t hold
your Leika camera in front of your face all the time.
Don’t have your Ford washed too often!’
These were the last instructions I received in
Washington prior to leaving for the coal-mining
regions in the Allegheny Mountains and for the
‘steel city’ Pittsburgh, the mighty steel-making
center of the United States.”
“My American colleague and I read Davenport‘s article when we were in
Chattanooga, an industrial city in the state of Tennessee. Soon thereafter
we had the opportunity to scrutinize whether Davenport‘s accusations
were true and accurate. We had a Ford 8, two Rolleiflex-cameras, and
three weeks of time at our disposal when we got on our way to find out
what is truly going on today in the American South.”
...the journey seems to me less an adventure and a foray into unusual realms than a concentrated likeness of our existence: residents of a city, citizens of country, beholden to a class or a social circle...
— Annemarie Schwarzenbach —