Arthur Mole's Living Formations
Almost a century ago and without the aid of any pixel-generating computer software, the itinerant photographer Arthur Mole (1889-1983) used his 11 x 14-inch view camera to stage a series of extraordinary mass photographic spectacles that choreographed living bodies into symbolic formations of religious and national community.
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Eugene Goldbeck's Photographs
Another of the most notable photographers of living people groups was Eugene Omar Goldbeck. Along with the large scale work, he also took photographic portraits of important personalities, such as Albert Einstein.
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John Quigley's Aerial Messages
Artist John Quigley is internationally renowned for his environmental messages and images spelt out by human bodies and photographed from the air.
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Canopy Formation World Record
On July 2008, three Kennedy Space Center engineers helped set two new world records in the parachuting sport of "canopy formation", with 81- and 85-person formation dives that took place over Lake Wales, Fla.
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Grenzhausen, Germany - 1st Field Artillery Brigade, 1st Division, 1919
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209th Engineers, Camp Sheridan, Alabama, 1919
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Spencer Tunick's nude group photography
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Spencer Tunick's nude group photography
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A Human MIG
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Being a part of this formation is fun...!