1918 Statue of Liberty photo
 

I thought you guys might get a kick out of this... :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...eofliberty.jpg

It's a photo taken at Fort Dodge in Iowa in 1918 to help with selling war bonds but was never used. Very cool, IMHO...

Impressive!!

Steve......!8,000 US Army and US Navy personal were used to create this master piece.

Leo

Note how well orchestrated this was! Men in lighter shirts formed outlines that could be appreciated from above. Also, I wonder from what this photograph was taken: a tower? An airplane? A blimp?

Drbuster............according to the info available it was taken from an 80 foot tower.

Leo

Shure this one isn't a "photoshop" special?
The perspectives look's od

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Although I don't see a photo, this was floating around the internet of a collection of "assorted" like" patriotic photos taken turn of the century.

There were 8 or 10 assorrted photos and the original photo I saw was from a geneaology site my bro-in-law sent me. My gut feeling is if it was retouched, it was retouched in the early 1900's. That was as common then as now.


Ed

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There is a few of these photos in the last Military trader

This is what Snopes.com had to say...

http://www.snopes.com/photos/patriotic/liberty.asp

Tac, the scale was taken into account, just like those guys who now paint on sidewaks do. :)

gundude,
Thanks for the link to the write-up. It confirmed my supposition that the person or persons responsible for staging this photo were well aware of perspective and foreshortening, and that the arm and torch contained more men than the entire body. Quite a feat.

:bowdown:
I stand corrected, That was assume.

And if you take into account that during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in 1918 some 18,000 US soldiers lost their lives...

That of which gundude speaks (go to the "3D Illusions"):
http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm

Jack