THE ROCK PAINTINGS OF THE UPPER BRANDBERG

2 volumes:

Compiled by Tilman Lenssen-Erz, edited by Rudolph Kuper

Volume 1: Text, 502 pages, profusely illustrated with black and white drawings, pictorial paper covered boards with black cloth spine, a very good copy.

Volume 2: Catalogue and tables, 503 - 677 pages - continuous pagination, bound into the slipcase with brown card back cover, the illustrations are still wrapped and have never been opened, housed in a matching slipcase to volume 1, a very good copy.

An artist, designer and photographer, Austrian born Harald Pager came to South Africa after the Second World War and developed an interest in San rock paintings. Harald Pager is now known around the world for his monumental efforts to record rock paintings in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and in the Brandberg, Namibia. In October 1967, Pager and his wife Shirley-Ann took up residence in Ndedema Gorge in the Drakensberg mountains.

Over the next two years they worked painstakingly to record every rock art image in the Gorge. Pager developed a unique recording technique where he photographed every rock painting and then produced life-size black and white photographic enlargements. these were then pasted together into panels and carried back to the rock shelters. By the time the full set of copies were completed Harald Pager and his wife had almost been reduced to bankruptcy, having been forced to sell most of their possessions in order to finance the project. https://www.wits.ac.za/rockart/collections/the-harald-pager-collection/