Paul Virilo is a well known for his images of bunkers. He is a French photographer who was also a cultural theorist, urbanist and aesthetic philosopher. Virilo was in to taking image of the geographical surface, his book contains essays within the first half, on the history of some of his images, which set the concept behind some of the images and then the other half of his book containing mostly black and white images of bunkers within different locations around France. Some of his images I like include;

This image is one of my favorites he has produced. I love how simple the image is. It has a longer depth of field of some of his other images where he tends to just focus on the bunker. Whereas in this image he has included a pier behind the bunker, which adds more to the image. The over exposed sky works really well with this image, due to the bunker and pier being in a dark grey/black colour which allows them to stand out and be more bold, along with the over exposed sky causing a foggy/muggy look for the image which changes the emotions presented when looking at this image, to cold and mysterious as something may be able to creep over the horizon. The image is so clear that is allows you to see all the detail of the bunker even from a distance, the features of the bunker have been enhanced and made darker which again works well in his favor as it adds a more of a dramatic feel to the image.

His other images are also simple, but they incorporate different shapes and lines in different direction which makes you want to look at the image and figure out what is happening in it. In on of the images above, his image inst set straight at all, but it allows him to show the purity and untouched through his images without him manipulating them too much and just enhancing the detail of the historical artifacts. Again in his black and white images, he really focuses on making the little details of the bunkers stand out which allows people to see the marks that history has left.