TEHRAN -- A photo exhibition featuring Iran’s sceneries, snapped by the Swiss photographer Annemarie Schwarzenbach in the 1930s, will open at Isfahan Museum of Contemporary Art on Nov. 21.

Some 30 works, taken during her travels to Iran between 1934 and 1939, will be on display until Dec. 3.

Schwarzenbach’s pictures depict natural sceneries, monuments, and people as well as social, economic, and political changes in Iran.

Some show the photographer with her pals visiting the country.

Born on May 23, 1908 in Zurich, Schwarzenbach grew up in the family house and studied history in Zurich and Paris.

In 1930, she made friends with German author Thomas Mann’s two brilliant eldest children Erika and Klaus with whom she remained close for most of her life.

In 1931, she received her doctorate and wrote her first book.

From 1933, she began traveling, first with the photographer Marianne Breslauer, to the Pyrenees, then to the Near East. Her first six-month trip took her to Beirut, Baghdad, Baki (Baku), and Tehran.

Everywhere she traveled, she took photographs which depicted misery in a striking manner. The snapshots that she brought back to Switzerland had an extraordinary quality, which are totally unrelated to the insignificant landscapes she executed at the beginning of her career.

She died on Nov. 15, 1982 due to a head injury in an accident.