Hiroshi Sugimoto (Personal Work Artist)

Theaters

 These are a couple of images that are done on a large format camera, with an exposure lasting as long as the film that was running did, this technique has created an amazing visual effect with the movie screen being completely washed out because of the exposure length, also because of the exposure length there are no clear people in the images, there’s some blurs and shapes which resemble something close to people, this to me makes the images somewhat dreamlike because of the detachment from everything that you expect to see there, I also find that because of the fact that screen is completely white, and I don’t have that focus I start exploring the rest of the images, looking at things that usually when in a theater and places like that you don’t see.

 Images/info source 
 http://www.sugimotohiroshi.com/theater.html

Bryan Lewis Saunders (Independent Research)

These are a couple of images that I have selected out of a series called drug, where the artist has taken drugs and then drawn a self-portrait while under the influence of them, the portrait on the top left was done on bath salts, and the other was while on cocaine. These images are particularly interesting to me because it shows the effect some of these drugs have on the mind and its ability to function properly, with some of the other drugs making it so the portrait is more just a scribble as if a child had done it, and others that look quite disturbing, so as someone who’s never used any form of drug, this is an interesting representation of the effects they can have and the kind of things that go through the mind of some one that’s on them. It’s also interesting and worth noting that jurying these “experiments” as he calls them, he did give himself mild brain damage due to taking a different drug every day over a couple of weeks.

http://bryanlewissaunders.org/drugs/ (image sourse)
plus the other images from the series, and more information about the work.

John Martin's (Visual Studies)

John Martin's

This is one of martin’s works that is on show in the Tate Brittan exhibition apocalyptic this picture depicts The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and is one of many works that he produced while working. He manages to capture the destruction and power of what’s hitting Pompeii, but also in some ways makes it look beautiful with the light braking though the back of the scene hitting Pompeii then the use of the reds and oranges in the sky creating something that is striking and amazing to look at but at the same time shows such destruction.

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/john-martin-apocalypse (link to tate website)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2039467/John-Martin-Destruction-Pompeii-painting-restored-Tate-Britain-exhibition.html#ixzz2iLYGCSjt  (image source)