The Chinese Art of the Crowd – The Atlantic

After viewing news photographs from China for years, one of my favorite visual themes is “large crowd formations.”  Whether the subject is military parades or world-record attempts, mass exercises or enormous performances, the images are frequently remarkable. The masses of people can look beautiful or intimidating, projecting a sense of strength and abundance. Individuals can become pixels in a huge painting, or points on a grid, or echoes of each other in identical uniforms or costumes