Nearly a century ago, Arthur Mole & John Thomas made gigantic scale photographs as a part of planned promotional campaign to sell war bonds. They organized photo shoots of massed formations of as many as 25-thousand men at a time.At left is the Mole & Thomas Human Statue of
The logistics of these shoots were enormous. But the techniques that Mole & Thomas developed to preserve perspective in their gigantic photos were ingenious.
In the picture of the Statue of Liberty there are 18,000 men: 12,000 of them in the torch alone, but just 17 at the base. The men at the top of the picture are actually half a mile away from the men at the bottom.Thoughts about the propaganda value of such photos and lots more here.
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