1. 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.

2. 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.

7. 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.

9. 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.

11. Canopy Formation World Record
On July 2008, three Kennedy Space
Center engineers helped set two new
world records in the parachuting sport
of quot;canopy formationquot;, with 81- and 85-
person formation dives that took place
over Lake Wales, Fla.

12. And some more...
Grenzhausen, Germany - 1st Field Artillery
Brigade, 1st Division, 1919

13. 209th Engineers, Camp
Sheridan, Alabama, 1919

14. Spencer Tunick's nude group photography

15. A Human MIG
Trinity