Dana forwarded me the photo of the Statue of Liberty. Amazing.

Snopes confirmed it to be true. It was taken in 1918 at Camp Dodge, Iowa, as a promotion to help sell war bonds during WW 1.

Click through if you haven’t seen it.

A bit of research led me to a page on the CARL HAMMER GALLERY site with many, many more similar huge performance art installations. This one from 1919:

See more – The Art of the Conceptual Photograph 1915 – 1920

Featuring work by: Mole and Thomas, E.O. Goldbeck, and Others