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Here is a collection of simply astounding human formations! This started off with military troops who artfully arranged themselves to form patriotic symbols, emblems, and military insignia visible from a bird's eye perspective. During World War I, these military formations came to serve as rallying points to support American involvement in the war and to ward off isolationist tendencies.

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Here is a collection of simply astounding human formations! This started off with military troops who artfully arranged themselves to form patriotic symbols, emblems, and military insignia visible from a bird's eye perspective. During World War I, these military formations came to

serve as rallying points to support American involvement in the war and to ward off isolationist tendencies.

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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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And some more...

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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A Human MIG

Trinity