Oct 21, 2002 - Sale 1947

Sale 1947 - Lot 209

Price Realized: $ 2,070
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
MOLE, ARTHUR; THOMAS, J. D.<>
"The Living Uncle Sam" * "Woodrow Wilson." Together, 2 photographs. Silver prints, each is 13x10 1/4 inches (33x26 cm.), with Mole & Thomas's credit, caption, copyright, and date in the negative, and Wilson's signature signature in the negative on the second. 1919; 1918
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Chicago photographers Mole & Thomas were brilliant pioneers of performance art who would travel around the country artfully configuring thousands of military men into icons of Americana, which were then shot from above. The complete titles read: "The Living Uncle Sam, 19,000 Officers and Men, Camp Lee, Va., Maj. Genl. Omar Bundy, Commdg." And, "Woodrow Wilson, 21,000 Officers and Men, Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio, Brig. Gen. Mathew C. Smith, Commanding." <