{"id":23370,"date":"2020-05-24T11:21:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T18:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=23370"},"modified":"2020-05-24T11:47:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T18:47:35","slug":"look-at-the-a-mazing-large-scale-living-photographs-of-arthur-mole-and-john-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2020\/05\/24\/look-at-the-a-mazing-large-scale-living-photographs-of-arthur-mole-and-john-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"LOOK at the a-mazing large-scale &#8220;living photographs&#8221; of Arthur Mole and John Thomas!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOOK closely at the following photos&#8230; those aren&#8217;t flowers, they&#8217;re PEOPLE!! They&#8217;re the World-War-I-era work of Arthur Mole and John Thomas. Each of their patriotic-themed <a href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/collection\/the-living-photographs-of-mole-and-thomas\">&#8220;living photographs&#8221;<\/a> took THOUSANDS of\u00a0soldiers, reservists, and nurses to create&#8230; and had to be taken from atop an 80-foot-high tower!! AND&#8230; they&#8217;re made from an <strong>anamorphic<\/strong> perspective:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;the images <strong>would not make much sense from overhead or on the ground<\/strong>, but only become intelligible at one particular vantage point \u2014 where Mole would be positioned atop his tower with his 11 x 14-inch view camera. This would make for some wonderful skewing of numbers, and itself, acts as a great example of perspective at work. The Statue of Liberty image, for example, required a total of 18,000 men: just 17 at the base but, more than half a mile away, 12,000 in the torch. Sadly it seems no one thought to fly a photographer overhead and capture what would have been a wonderfully skewed vision of Liberty, with enormous bulging torch and minuscule feet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>30,000!!!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23375\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mass_Photography_Arthur_Mole_Chicago_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"712\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23374\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mass_Photography_Arthur_Mole_Chicago_11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>25,000!!!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23371\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mass_Photography_Arthur_Mole_Chicago_13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"717\" \/><\/p>\n<p>18,000!!!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23373\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mass_Photography_Arthur_Mole_Chicago_08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>19,000!!!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23376\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/357c3599d1dddbf0190d62dc2c0c16ca.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"821\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23378\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/95bb1770e82f17c4029a2b3ad48ee3f1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"496\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23379\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/d087080cf0423ae1c7a1f7494270ed73.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"637\" height=\"850\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23380\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3d077429f89469a7172e9386e486b6ad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"891\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3d077429f89469a7172e9386e486b6ad.jpg 564w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3d077429f89469a7172e9386e486b6ad-460x640.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOOK closely at the following photos&#8230; those aren&#8217;t flowers, they&#8217;re PEOPLE!! They&#8217;re the World-War-I-era work of Arthur Mole and John Thomas. Each of their patriotic-themed &#8220;living photographs&#8221; took THOUSANDS of\u00a0soldiers, reservists, and nurses to create&#8230; and had to be taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23393,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23370\/revisions\/23393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}