During the WW I years, Arthur S. Mole and John D. Thomas made some incredible human pictures by using thousands of sailors or soldiers in uniform to create the following images.
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The incredible photos of Mole & Thomas
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 Texani |
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Posts: 45 Jun 7, 2008 12:41 AM
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Posts: 45 Jun 7, 2008 12:43 AM
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.This nation and the world found themselves reeling from the world's first truly all-encompassing war
with mechanized killing on an unparalleled scale, and its aftermath.As hopeful as the ensuing peace might have seemed, the world's masses still faced
unresolved issues left over from war as well as the job of re-building nations, economies, and dealing with the re-entry of hundreds of thousands of military
personnel into the everyday fabric of society.
Within that imposing spectrum, the technology of the early 20th century continued developing, pulling a weary world's population into one of the most robust rebuilding periods in human history.In the arts, photography, specifically, was of major significance due to its way of attaching technological development to the way we looked at and regarded ourselves as a people.Photography became a new and important means of visual language, establishing itself as the most democratic of communication forms. 
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Posts: 45 Jun 7, 2008 12:44 AM
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The outbreak of World War I and its inherent violence engendered a new commitment by the world's photographers to document every aspect of the fighting,
ending an era of In A Patriotic Mole, A Living Photograph, Louis Kaplan, of Southern Illinois University, writes, "The so-called living photographs and
living insignia of Arthur Mole [and John Thomas] are photo-literal attempts to recover the old image of national identity at the very moment when the United
States entered the Great War in 1917.Mole's [and Thomas's] photos assert, bolster, and recover the image of American national identity via photographic
imaging.
Moreover, these military formations serve as rallying points to support U.S. involvement in the war and to ward off any isolationist tendencies. In life during wartime, [their] patriotic images function as "nationalist propaganda" and instantiate photo cultural formations of citizenship for both the participants and the consumers of these group photographs." 
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Posts: 45 Jun 7, 2008 12:46 AM
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The monumentality of this project somewhat overshadows the philanthropic magnanimity of the artists themselves.Instead of prospering from the sale of the
images produced, the artists donated the entire income derived to the families of the returning soldiers and to this country's efforts to re-build their
lives as a part of the re-entry process.
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Posts: 45 Jun 7, 2008 12:47 AM
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Posts: 45 Jun 7, 2008 12:48 AM
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More to come... |
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Posts: 952 Jun 7, 2008 09:30 AM |
Incredible
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Posts: 408 Jun 7, 2008 01:09 PM |
I wonder how the photgraphers figured out the patterns...it must have been a tremendously complicated job!
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truebluelady |
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Posts: 952 Jun 7, 2008 09:39 PM |
It must have been...those pictures are amazing
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Posts: 165 Jun 7, 2008 10:36 PM |
Those are awsome. I received the Statue of Liberty one in an email today. It was amazing what that photographer was able to do and all the soldiers that were
willing to participate.
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Posts: 45 Jun 7, 2008 11:26 PM
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Uncle Sam..
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Posts: 45 Jun 7, 2008 11:29 PM
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