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Hashima is a small island located off the extreme southwest coast of Japan, about ten miles from Nagasaki. Its dark warship-like silhouette earned it the nickname of Gunkanjima (“battleship island”). During the wave of industrialisation in the nineteenth century, a coal seam was discovered on the island and the Mitsubishi corporation opened a mine there. Workers settled on the island and the population increased, the small mining town quickly becoming a modern and autonomous settlement. During the 1950s, Gunkanjima became one of the most densely populated places in the world with over 5,000 inhabitants. But after an accident and the restructuring of the Mitsubishi mining project, the mine closed in January 1974. The last inhabitants deserted the island, the connection by boat was suspended, and since then Gunkanjima has become a ghost town. Marchand and Meffre photographed the island between 2008 and 2012. Born in 1981 and 1987 in the Parisian suburbs, Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre began to photograph separately in 2001. They began working together for their project on the urban decay of Detroit in 2005, which Steidl published to acclaim as The Ruins of Detroit in 2010.

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ISBN 13 9783869305462
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hardcover. Condition: Nuovo (New). Prima edizione (First Edition). Un testo degli artisti e uno di Brian Burke-Gaffney. Fotografie a colori� . 4to (30x38 cm). pp. 108. . Nuovo (New). . Prima edizione (First Edition). . Hashima � una piccola isola situata al largo dell'estrema costa sud-occidentale del Giappone, a circa dieci miglia da Nagasaki. La sua sagoma simile a una nave da guerra le ha fatto guadagnare il soprannome di Gunkanjima ("isola della corazzata"). Durante l'ondata di industrializzazione del XIX secolo, sull'isola fu scoperto un filone di carbone e la societ� Mitsubishi vi apr� una miniera. Gli operai si stabilirono sull'isola e la popolazione aument�: la piccola citt� mineraria si trasform� rapidamente in un insediamento moderno e autonomo. Negli anni '50, Gunkanjima divenne uno dei luoghi pi� densamente popolati del mondo, con oltre 5.000 abitanti. Ma dopo un incidente e la ristrutturazione del progetto minerario Mitsubishi, la miniera chiuse nel gennaio 1974. Gli ultimi abitanti abbandonarono l'isola, il collegamento via mare fu sospeso e da allora Gunkanjima � diventata una citt� fantasma.Marchand e Meffre hanno fotografato l'isola tra il 2008 e il 2012. Book. Seller Inventory # bc_229137

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