Eighty years from the picture on the building site

Diapositivo · Sep 20, 2012

It's eighty years today from the picture taken by photographer Charles Clyde Ebbets on the building site, "up in the sky":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunchtime_atop_a_Skyscraper

http://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli...io_della_storica_foto-42884251/1/?ref=HRESS-2

This small caption says the photographer was the official photographer of the building firm and - who would have thought it - the picture was somehow staged.

This is one of the pictures that really remained impressed in my mind when I saw it first, while a child.

Richard S. (rich815) · Sep 20, 2012

Cool. I too have always marveled at that photo. Thanks for posting this.

batwister · Sep 20, 2012

My Dad had a huge poster in his shop when I was a kid. Probably the first photograph that made me go "wow" or more like "huh?"

pbromaghin · Sep 20, 2012

I saw it for the first time probably 45 years ago. It still gives me a shiver every time I look at it.

bobwysiwyg · Sep 20, 2012

Kind of funny. When I was in college (60's) had the good fortune of getting a job on a steel construction gang during summers. Great $$ and worked 30 stories up and never gave it a second thought to walk edge forms, no safety lines, etc. Now, you can't get me on the roof of the house. The picture gives me the willies!

Eighty years from the picture on the building site

Diapositivo

Richard S. (rich815)

batwister

pbromaghin

bobwysiwyg

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