While file photographs at the Library of Congress , Barbara Orbach Natanson was momentarily startled by a 1920 word-painting that looked as if Portland , Oregon was being attacked from above . “ How fearsome would it have been to be on the street , ” she asked herself , “ when these airplanes swoop up overhead ? ”
The answer , she tells us , is not frightening at all , because it turns out this is a composite photograph of an consequence that never take place :
“ Composite ” photographs are made by commingle two or more negatives into a single pic . Portland - based lensman C.S. Woodruff evidently was fascinated by plane and project a twenty-four hour period when they would be as low-cost as automobiles . He shared his vision by create a picture that coalesce separate effigy to inhabit the skies over business district Portland .
One of her colleagues noted a ocular latitude to another imaginative swarm of airplanes : this display of example plane decorating the ceiling of the train concourses at Union Station in Chicago in 1943 , when military aircraft were more on peoples ’ mind than the potentiality for personalized air transferral :
“ Together , the two picture hint that when some people appear up , they see a blank slate begging to be filled , ” enounce Natanson .
[ ViaPicture This , the Library of Congress ’ print and photo blog ]
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