Robert Disraeli :: Industrialization, ca. 1935 / src: The Guardian

Robert Disraeli, who is best known as a documentary photographer, created a small group of contrived images inspired by Surrealism. Here, industry is introduced as a meat grinder (appropriately, an “Enterprise” brand device) that spits out a stream of automobiles at the cost of the human body. All that remains to be consumed is a hand, fingers spread in a gesture of frightened but futile resistance. The stark shadow of the hand cast on the wall behind recalls cinematic murder scenes. [quoted from source]

Richard Goodwin ::

Chrysalis-Crisis, 2000-2001.

A sequence of five cropped, overlapping black and white photographs repeatedly depict one of the artist’s sculptures – a crude re-assemblage of car parts. Inside two of these constructions a nude female figure appears and then uncannily re-appears. The photographs are linked by means of a twisted sheet of cloth. / source: art gallery.nsw.gov.au