Re: People letter panoramas/ Goldbecks book.

[Thinh Le <babyshark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I also saw an article with these wonderful and incredible pictures in an
issue of the Smithonian magazine last year (I can't remember which
month).
TL

George S. Pearl wrote:
> 
> *****
> Thanks Jamie for your input! I will try the library here in Atlanta to see
> what they might have....good idea. I did not see this book at Moab or hear
> anything about it there. I surely would have bought one there if I had seen
> it. Does anyone know who has one for sale?
> George ;-)
> 
> At 07:32 PM 9/2/98 -0600, you wrote:
> >>At 05:52 PM 9/2/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >>>****
> >>>I am talking about a group picture with the people in formation to actually
> >>>spell out a word or two by using all of the people to make up the
> >>>letters....does anyone now do this, or am I the only fool in the world
> >>>going to this much trouble to make a picture?
> >>>
> >>>George Pearl
> >>>Atlanta Panorama
> >>
> >>
> >>George,
> >>
> >>There may have been some discussion of this technique in the Goldbeck (sp?)
> >>circuit panorama book. You make a grid on graph paper and work out a
> >>perspective diagram that tilts the picture plane.
> >>
> >>AZ
> >
> >
> >I just looked at the Goldbeck book- the local library has a copy. Although
> >There's no detailed description about it, there are pics of his plans and
> >references to his process. George- you should check it out if you can find
> >a copy. One picture had twenty thousand people shaped like the military
> >division they were in. He shot it with three cameras including a 20x24.
> > When I was out in Moab someone mentioned that the last two hundred copies
> >of the Goldbeck book were sold to someone. Does anyone know were to get a
> >copy
> > Jamie
> >
> >
> >