February 18, 2008
Photo of the Day: Living Lady Liberty
The above photo is a living replica of the Statue of Liberty, painstakingly recreated with 18,000 people at Camp Dodge in Des Moines, Iowa. The image is from 1918, and is one of many "living photographs" by Arthur Mole and John Thomas, who attempted to "recover the old image of national identity at the very moment when the United States entered the Great War in 1917."
Flash forward to present day, shed some clothes, subtract the nationalist propaganda angle, and you have Spencer Tunick. [via Moneyries. See enlarged image here.]
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I was thinking Tunick but you beat me to it.
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Leave it to Jen Carlson to describe this 1918 image of the Statue of Liberty as "nationalist propaganda."
There was a decent article on these "living photographs" in an issue of Martha Stewart Living a few months back.
"nationalist propaganda" ie "patriotism".
Nationalist propaganda? Unbelievable, but maybe not...liberals
my great grandfather was one of the men in the "human u.s. shield" photo. my grandmother has a print of it hanging in her home.