Photographers Cortis & Sonderegger recreate memorable photographs in miniature size dimensions. Assembled from mixed materials like glue and cellophane. these two manage to create some of the most iconic images of our history. check them out below
1: “Lakehurst” by Sam Shere, 1937
The LZ 129 Hindenburg was a large german commercial passenger-carrying airship.It was designed and built by the Zeppelin Company on the shores of Lake Constance in Friedrichshafen.The airship flew from March 1936 until it was destroyed by fire 14 months later on May 1937. 36 people lost their lives in the accident
2: “Concorde” by Toshihiko Sato, 2000
Air France Concorde flight crashed shortly after takeoff and all 109 passengers and 4 other people on the ground died
3: “Tiananmen” by Stuart Franklin, 1989
The famous Tankman. During the massacre at the Tiananmen Square in 1989 a man stood in the path of tanks and blocked their way holding a shopping bags in each hand
4: “Olympia München” by Ludwig Wegmann, 1972
September 5, 1972 a group of Palestinian terrorists killed 11 Israeli Olympic team members along with a germen police officer. This is the famous picture of one of the terrorists standing on the balcony
5: “AS11-40-5878” by Edwin Aldrin, 1969
On July 20, 1969 Aldrin took a photo of his footprint on the surface of the moon. Later it became a synonym for the conquest of space by humans
6: “Nessie” by Marmaduke Wetherell, 1934
The iconic image of Nessie the loch ness monster which was exposed as a fake by the photographer himself shortly before his death. It is made of clay which he attached to a toy submarine
7: “The Wright Brothers” by John Thomas Daniels, 1903
The first flight that took place on 17 December, 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
8: “Five Soldiers Silhouette at the Battle of Broodseinde” by Ernest Brooks, 1917
The famous image which has become the symbol of the universal soldiers of primal world war. published on 20 October 1917
9: “La cour du dumaine du Gras” by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, 1826
Probably the world’s first photograph, created in the early autumn of 1826 by Joseph Nicephore Niepce
10: “208-N-43888” by Charles Levy, 1945
MK.3 AKA Fat Man was the first nuclear explosion in history on 16 July 1945. It was dropped on August 9, 1945 by a US bomber and exploded at 11:02 on the city of Nagasaki, Japan. Fat Man and Little Boy were the only nuclear weapons to ever be used in war
11: “Rhein II” by Andreas Gursky, 1999
This is the most expensive photograph in the world. it’s price tag is 3.1 million dollars and it is by the German artist Andreas Gursky from 1999
12: “9/11” by ABC News, 2001
The coordinated attacks that took place on September 11, 2001 which 4 airplanes were hijacked and crashed into the world trade center and other targets in the US
Source: link
