Gunkanjima Jim goldberg The resulting portraits range from

The resulting portraits range from pictures taken in elaborate studio sets reminiscent of the heyday of the Victorian studio photographer

where meaning still seems to be gathering itself

the images of the photographer Giovanna Silva overlap in this publication with Syrian tourist guides’ images and texts

Over four decades from 1948

The transparency of the material and the overlapping it creates between images reference the delicate separation between worlds real and imagined

Gunkanjima Jim goldberg The resulting portraits range fromFirst edition of Gunkanjima by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre (2013) First impression Large format hardback in as new condition Signed by the artists to title page No markings Published by Steidl About Hashima is a small island located off the extreme southwest coast of Japan, about ten miles from Nagasaki. Its darkwarship like silhouette earned it the nickname of Gunkanjima (battleship island). During the wave of industrialisation in the nineteenth