Norman Bel Geddes’ models have added an extra dimension to pictorial reporting. By recreating large or small parts of the sea and the earth’s surface in miniature they have made it possible for the camera to take positions which would normally be highly unusual or impossible. By the use of these models, the lens may hover safely over a seething battlefield, or it may picture the world from a detached point 10000 miles in space.
- From: Normal Bel Geddes, War Maneuver Models Created for Life Magazine, Exhibition Catalog Pamphlet, Museum of Modern Art, 1944. Copied while visiting Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War, at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, August 3 2011. Photo: Norman Bel Geddes’ model of city planning for Toledo (Photographer: Frank Scherschel, 1944). Found on Google’s Life Archive.
