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Kolmanskop - past and present
Photography by Helga Kohl
Text by Amy Schoeman
Kolmanskop, a ghost town situated in the southern Namib Desert about 10km inland from Lüderitz, is one of Namibia’s most ingriguiing relics of the past. At one time the focal point of the diamond industry in Namibia, it was deserted in 1956 following the discovery of richer diamond fields further south. Left to the mercy of the blasting winds and encrouching sands of the Namib, its structures gradually crumbled and fell apart.
Kolmanskop - past and present was inspired by a portfolio of classically composed photographs taken during the mid-nineties by Namibian photographer Helga Kohl FPPSA. The 61 images reproduced as the Kolmanskop Portfolio are not only a valuable historial record of the havoc wreaked on the town by wind and weather, but also give an incisive glimpse into the scale and grandeur of the lifestyle of Kolmanskop’s inhabitatns when the town was in its heyday. Free-lance writer and photographer, Amy Schoeman, traces the rise and fall of Kolmanskop against the history of the diamond industry in the then South West Africa. The historical text is illustrated with black and white archival photographs, some of which have not been published before.
Also available in German "Kolmanskuppe - Einst und Jetzt"
Price: 325.00 N$ incl. VAT
Klaus Hess Publishers, Göttingen 2004
ISBN: 9991657061
230 x 280 mm
119 pages, hardcover, numerous colour and black/white photographs
Weight: 800 g
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