Crowd Series--VE Day, May 1945

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This is an addition to a developing series on images of crowds:

• Ephemeral Uniqueness in Large Crowds, here.
• Crowds and the Press of Humanity:  WWI German POWs, here.
• The Chaos of Hats, here.
• Crowd Series and Berlin Expectations, here
• Clarity and Confusion in the Display of Human Masses, here
• Large Crowds and Singular Persons Series--3 Images.  Here.
• Servicemen and B-17s at the End of WWII, here.
• Imaging Mass Casualties in WWI, here.
• Relief in Capture: Churchill in Carthage and what 230,000 POWs Looks Like, here.
• The Detail is in the Detail: What 20,000 Soldiers and 1 Mule Look Like, 1918, here.

Times Square, New York City, VE Day, May 1945:

And the detail of the soldiers at top left:

VE Day, Times Square:

VE Day, Whitehall:

German Prisoners, Moscow, May 1945:

German POWs, Germany, May 1945: