{"id":7229,"date":"2016-12-29T10:02:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T14:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=7229"},"modified":"2016-12-27T23:23:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T03:23:32","slug":"people-as-pixels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/people-as-pixels\/","title":{"rendered":"People as Pixels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7231\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/LoC1917FlagPeople.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7231\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7231\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/LoC1917FlagPeople-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">C1917 Photo of US Flag using people as picture elements<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. In this age of digital technology most of us know <em>pixel<\/em> means <em>picture element<\/em> which in the film era we called <em>grain<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>George Dunbar sent me this <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.loc.gov\/picturethis\/2016\/05\/formation-photographs-lining-up-to-salute-the-flag\/\">remarkable link to a c1917 Library of Congress <\/a>(Washington DC) photograph of an American Flag using naval staff as the flag&#8217;s picture elements.<\/p>\n<p>This and similar photos were taken by Arthur Mole with the careful coordination and supervision of the people by his partner John Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>Think of the patience needed to get everyone in the exact place to replicate the flag in a light breeze. Remember, this photograph was taken with the technology current \u00a0a century ago. Remarkable!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. In this age of digital technology most of us know pixel means picture element which in the film era we called grain. George Dunbar sent me this remarkable link to a c1917 Library of Congress (Washington DC) photograph of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/people-as-pixels\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,705],"tags":[830,398,829,585],"class_list":["post-7229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-photos","tag-c1917","tag-camera","tag-group","tag-portrait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7229"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7237,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229\/revisions\/7237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}