Art History- Double Exposure Research

In the urban sense- Miki Takahashi- 2012

        It was taken by Miki Takahashi in 2012 and is a self portrait. There is no title but the title of the whole series is called 'In the urban sence”.It is meant to represent her feelings on the ‘in the urban sence’ and portraying herself and the outside world. In the pictures she is on the foreground of the image, and inside her head are the urban landscape of where she lives. It communicates feeling and is very aesthetically pleasing.  There is an ethereal feel to the pictures, this is due to how the pictures are layered which make it feel dream like. The colours in the pictures are very bright with the rest of the picture very pale, where the bright colours are 2 of the 3 primary colours.
In her portfolio it states that it is digital photography, If this is the case she has taken 2 pictures and blended them together in photoshop by using masks. The Pre-production way to achieve this would be to expose your film twice in the same frame, which is very unpredictable as planning the framing would be difficult. I suspect It was digital due to it being in the modern day with access to photshop and digital cameras are so easy to come by as film is still not as common especialy when you are an Internet artist who would want to put the pictures online easily. I want to use the film method as It would involve no post-production.

        The pictures are taken at 2 different times of day, the portrait in the day and the city at night. This creates a big contrast between the colours and the pictures. I like that there is a split. It shows us that she relates to the city and all the emotions that are inside it. When taking a double exposure with film you have to think about the lighting on each, and make sure they do not clash. This is more pre production where Takahashi uses post production.
The pitures make me think that there is more behind the pictures than meets the eye. It looks very emotion and where she has a connection to the city, It is possibly where she lives and grew up so she has a connection to the place.

     I'm using the influence of her style and use of portraits and landscapes/cityscape behind the portrait, but I will use a film camera.

In the urban sense- Miki Takahashi- 2012

This is another of her pictures form the same set of work. It is very similar in the sense of herself on one layer and a city behind her as they fade into each other, creating another dream like sense. I think that it shows herself, as it is japan behind her and that is where she is from.
The image has the girl on the left and the city on the right and there is a 3rd split with the girl in one of the 3rds.
The city again has been taken at night and the person during the day giving a very dream like contrast. The colours are very dark which relates to the urban theme that is in her pictures.

Hodachrome-Persona-2015

Hodachrome- summer portraits  - 2015

Hodachrome, is a lomogroahy user who has posted some of his work, and wrote some how to guides to producing double exposures. This picture has no title but is in a collection of all of his double exposures. It is a boy and fire works. Both taken on film, Presumably at  the same time, or taken in different sets, as I  have seen a way people on lomogroahy use a hole punch to reference the start of the film. This was taken In Tokyo, as is all of his  pictures, he explains that he loves the 4 seasons of Tokyo, and his sets of double exposures represent this work with all the seasons in mind.  This picture is the one that caught my eye as the person isn't as detailed as Takahashi. Which adds another depth of mystery to who this person is. Which is the same for his other work persona where all the people and other background settings are silhouettes. 
The pictures colour is blue whit the explosive red of the fireworks. This realty separates the pictures from each other as they are layered, it makes it more obvious. I think that the colours of the film are also different from what you can see with your eye which suggests that he has used film, as its an effect that only happens with film. where the persona image is very similar with a silhouette but has buildings and trees as well, with red flowers in front of it.

The colours of the fireworks contras with the blue sky and with the fireworks could have been multiple exposures. 

I think that the work is very dream like much like Takahashi, which I think is the desired effect when doing double exposures.

It was taken with film although it looks very similar to Takahashi, who used digital. I would say that is down to the skill and the familiarity with using double exposures of the artist. Hodachrome uses film as he has a love of film like me, which is why lomogoraphy is a platform for him to use and would not have been able to do this without lomogrpahy around releasing the old cameras pushing the 'dont think just shoot" idea, much like the "decisive moment" from Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Where as Takahashi has a different way of showing her work as she sells her art so it has to appeal to a wider audience compared to Hodachrome as he is doing it for fun.