Stellenbosch – Op die drumpel by Charles Biggs
Stellenbosch – Op die drumpel (Collectible Black-and-White Stellenbosch Photobook)
A Bilingual Black-and-White Photographic Portrait of Stellenbosch, Its Architecture, Surroundings and People
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Stellenbosch – Op die drumpel
- Author: Charles Biggs
- Publisher: Classic Trust Publications, Cape Town
- Publication Date: 2006
- ISBN-13: 9780620367950
- ISBN-10: 0620367954
- Binding: Publisher's illustrated card wrappers, with a black-and-white photographic cover image of a church gable
- Physical Format: Large-format softcover photographic book in portrait orientation, with full-page black-and-white photographs and bilingual Afrikaans and English captions.
- Language: English and Afrikaans
Official Condition Report
- The Book: Very Good (VG)
- Exterior / Wraps: The card wrappers are fairly clean, with slight surface marks and a few small specks to the black-and-white photographic front cover. The spine is light grey and clean, with the lettering clear. A strip of tape or label sits at the top right corner of the back cover, which carries a single photograph and the barcode.
- Interior: The title page and copyright page are clean and unmarked.
- The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued)
Synopsis & Historical Value
Stellenbosch – Op die drumpel (On the Threshold) is a photographic study of Stellenbosch by Charles Biggs, published by Classic Trust Publications in Cape Town in 2006. Full-page black-and-white images capture the town's architecture, its surroundings and its people, with captions in both Afrikaans and English.
Stellenbosch was founded in 1679 and is one of the oldest towns in South Africa. Biggs approaches it with a photographer's eye for gables, streets and faces, producing a visual record of a place central to Afrikaner heritage and Cape history.
A handsome large-format book for collectors of South African photography, Cape heritage and architectural Africana.
Author Profile: Charles Biggs
Charles Biggs is a South African photographer who began taking photographs as a schoolboy in the 1970s. He trained at the SAAF's Central Photographic Training and went on to study photography at the Port Elizabeth Art School.
He worked for about five years in the film industry as an assistant director and stills photographer, and directed one feature film. He moved to Stellenbosch in 2001, held an exhibition there in 2004, and has lectured at the Stellenbosch Academy of Design and Photography.
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