I ran across this web page today and did a double take. What I first thought to be early 20th-century World War I paintings turned out to be very interesting perspective photographs.
The recipe: take 10,000-30,000 men in uniform. Arrange them standing up in a way that will produce an interesting logo, shape, or phrase when viewed from a point several stories up in the air. Take a photograph from that point. Repeat.
The perspective effect is especially noticeable in the Living Statue of Liberty photograph. Compare the size of the people at the base of the statue versus the torch. You can clearly heads, torsos, arms, legs, and feet for those people. As your eyes move up the statue, however, the people shrink down to mere dots.
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