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Arthur Mole & John Thomas

1889- 1983 & - 1947 (UK)

ARTHUR MOLE & JOHN THOMAS WERE BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHERS WHO WERE HIRED BY THE US MILITARY AFTER AMERICA BECAME INVOLVED IN WORLD WAR 1 IN 1917 TO CREATE HIGHLY UNUSUAL PATRIOTIC IMAGES.

USING THOUSANDS OF SOLDIERS AT A TIME, THEY WOULD ARRANGE THEM IN PATTERNS, LIKE A CHINESE VICTORY PARADE, WHICH THEY THEN PHOTOGRAPHED FROM TALL WOODEN TOWERS AT AN ANGLE WHEREBY THE SOLDIERS BECAME JUST DOTS IN AN OVERALL IMAGE REPRESENTING THE STARS AND STRIPES OR THE STATUE OF LIBERTY. THESE THEY CALLED ‘LIVING PHOTOGRAPHS.'