Stellenbosch by Alice Mertens Hardcover Book
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Title: Stellenbosch by Alice Mertens Hardcover Book.
Author: Alice Mertens.
Type: Non-Fiction.
Edition: Second Edition 1971.
Publisher: Tafelberg.
Year First Published: 1966.
Format: Hardcover Book.
Printed By: Nasionale Handelsdrukkery, Elsiesrivier.
Page Count: 90 pages.
Size: Width: 21 cm
Height: 27.5 cm
Thickness: 1 cm
Info: The second oldest town in South Africa splendidly photographed in Black and White. Text in English and Afrikaans. An important look at Stellenbosch in the Last Century through the photographers lens. A fascinating look at Stellenbosch as a University Town, with all the charm of the countryside farms and industries that make up this beautiful gem of a town in the Boland.
Includes images from Dorp Street and the Town Square, as well as the Town buildings.
With Meerlust, Neethlingshof and other wine farms also and features on farm gables.
Alice Victoria Mertens was born on 27 February 1915 in Windhoek. She grew up on her parents' farm in South West Africa, in Berlin, Germany, and in Cape Town. She studied Photography at the Reimann School in Berlin shortly before the second world war.
Alice travelled extensively to study and photograph indigenous peoples of Southern Africa. Her photos can be found in many museums. She worked for 14 years as a photographer and journalist in Cape Town.
1964: Seventy of her photographs are used at the International Court of Justice in the Hague.
1964 - 1980: Lecturer in Photography at the Arts Department of Stellenbosch University
She featured in "Who is Who: South African Women", "Who is Who: International Writers " and "Who is Who: Woman of the World ".
She had ten one man exhibitions in different cities of South Africa.
Alice Mertens died on 25 October 2001 in Stellenbosch.
Condition: Good, an old book that is still in good condition, clean pages and all the binding is still very good. some edge wear on the woven spine
Price: R 195.00 Inc Vat.
