Andreas Feininger’s time-lapse Life Magazine photo of a helicopter taking off at night from 1949 is… amazing.  With the Pablo Picasso light painting pictures from that year, I never imagined that 1949 was such a hotbed for light painting!

Check these images out, they are amazing.

I found these two initial images from Make, but once I did some digging, it was like Contrast Photo City.  Check out these other beautiful images I found digging through the Life Magazine pile:

Moving.  Enough said.

Related posts:

• Pablo Picasso, The Light Graffiti Artist
• Light and Art – A Few Lines Make The Mind Go Crazy
• Materials Testing Under Different Light Sources
• Hiroshi Sugimoto’s “Lighting Fields Composed”
• Alan Jaras’ “Caustics” – Bending, Twisting, Broken Light