It turns out that Chuck Close wasn't the Þrst guy to make portraits
out of strange pixels, or faux fractals.
In 1918 a 29-year-old commercial photographer named Arthur Mole
talked the base commander and 21,000 servicemen at Camp Sherman in Ohio
into posing for this amazing forced perspective portrait of President Woodrow Wilson.

I don't know how long it took to get the shot,
but I've heard that more than one soldier fainted before it was over.
During this period Mole visited a number of bases
and created a number of extraordinary images.






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