Lunch atop a skyscraper

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Lunch Atop A Skyscraper, Iron Workers, Famous Photography, Stars D'hollywood, Famous Pictures, Old New York, Old Photography, Rockefeller Center, Historic Photos

Many of us love taking photos of all the little joys in life—the goofiness of a pet, the not-so-good-looking cookies you baked for the first time, or the unexpected flowers you received. It's fascinating how smartphones have made it so easy for us to capture precious moments forever. But this was not always the case. In the past, not many people had the luxury of clicking photographs at any time. So, it's interesting to see past photos that reflect a rich tapestry of historical events…

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Photographer Thomas Kelly shooting on beam of RKO building, NYC, 1932 Lunch Atop A Skyscraper, Photography References, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Edward Steichen, Walker Evans, Vintage City, Old New York, Alfred Stieglitz, Shoot Film

The picture, of these 11 men casually eating, chatting and sneaking a smoke as if they weren’t 256m / 840 feet above Manhattan, was taken on the 69th floor as part of a promotional campaign for the massive skyscraper complex, during the depression time (we are talking about 1931-32). Lewis Hine’s celebrated portrait of 11 Depression-era ironworkers, lunching along an I-beam on the unfinished Empire State Building. No?

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