JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
This intriguing and striking collection of dots is actually an articulated portrait of death. Road death. The composite picture appeared in the Illustrated London News on December 18, 1937, and when the reader opened the magazine to the big two-page spread–11×18″ big–they were probably shocked. The picture represents 67,000 people killed on British roads in auto accidents over ten years. “Nothing less than appalling” is what the heading reads.
Just down the road, at the end of WWII eight years later, you would need 1,200 of these double sheets to represent the dead of that conflict.
Here’s a detail of one of the images:
