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The most unknown photo in history...

ChristopherCoy

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No one knows who the subjects are. No one knows which photographer made it.

 
Thanks for sharing that. Enjoyed watching it.
 
Thank you. I have often admired those photographs. You would not have caught me up there.
 
I don't even like to look at that photo.
 
Weird
All these years I thought it was Margaret Bourke-White's. work when she documented the Chrysler Building.
She was one remarkable photographer!
 
You are probably thinking of the shots of the aluminum eagle on the Chrysler building. This photograph "Lunch atop a skyscraper " was shot by ( despite the point of the video) Charles Ebbets. Several of the men have been identified.
 
There is a local antique mall with a very similar stereo view of a photographer shooting (naturally) stereo views with what appears to be a medium format roll film camera of that era. He is dressed in a suit, tie and duffer's cap with slick street shoes, balanced on one of those beams. I got the willies just looking at it...
 
I enjoyed the video, which scares the hell out of me. But wasn't there some type of native American Indian tribe that excelled at working on sky scrapers with no fear of heights?
 
macfred said:
True!

Charles C. Ebbets at work :
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Wow! I have to return and see if that is a stereo view of him at work! If it is, I'll pay their exorbitant fee (but first, I'll try to wrangle it down a bit)!

EDIT: Wait! That IS him; the photo of him in a bowler in the linked article is the stereo card they have. Amazing!
 
cliveh said:
I enjoyed the video, which scares the hell out of me. But wasn't there some type of native American Indian tribe that excelled at working on sky scrapers with no fear of heights?
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If I remember correctly Mohawks took personal and tribal pride in specializing in high rise building steel work in New York.
 
How "Real" is that photo of the guys having lunch.?
Is it just a matter of perspective...........like the Harold Lloyd clock photo.?



 
cowanw said:
You are probably thinking of the shots of the aluminum eagle on the Chrysler building. This photograph "Lunch atop a skyscraper " was shot by ( despite the point of the video) Charles Ebbets. Several of the men have been identified.
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YES!
thanks.. she photographed some great stuff. real trailblazer !

CMoore said:
How "Real" is that photo of the guys having lunch.?
Is it just a matter of perspective...........like the Harold Lloyd clock photo.?
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it was as real as a heart attack...
like this:
 
jnantz said:
YES!
thanks.. she photographed some great stuff. real trailblazer !



it was as real as a heart attack...
like this:
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Houdini was a magician, it was a gag...........anybody ever wonder why he did that hanging upside down.?

Is there a photo that shows what was underneath those workers.?
It would be interesting to see .......a scaffold, or 800 feet of nothing.
 
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CMoore said:
How "Real" is that photo of the guys having lunch.?
Is it just a matter of perspective...........like the Harold Lloyd clock photo.?



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When the crew dropped a dummy after shooting, it bounced off the platform, falling down to the street.
 
guangong said:
When the crew dropped a dummy after shooting, it bounced off the platform, falling down to the street.
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Actually, I believe that incident was during the production of Harold Lloyd's " Why Worry" silent film. There is an interview with Lloyd by Kevin Brownlow in his book, "The Parade's Gone By" where Lloyd mentions this...
 
CMoore said:
Houdini was a magician, it was a gag...........anybody ever wonder why he did that hanging upside down.?
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I don't know if I would say it was a gag more like a publicity stunt hanging infront of the police station or most read newspaper in the city.
not sure whey he was upside down, but I know whenever I am in a straight jacket I have a I have more incentive to get out of it when I am suspended over a shark tank and the rope attached to my handcuffed ankles is on fire
 
OK........now THAT was funny.

I had JUST seen a "Thing" about Houdini.
A well known magician was interviewed.
Hanging upside down made it easier for him to extricate himself from the S-Jacket.
 
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