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Lunch atop a Skyscraper  is a famous black-and-white photograph taken during construction of the RCA Building (renamed the GE Building in 1986) at Rockefeller Center in New York City, United States. Below is a picture of  construction workers who recreated the classic photo in 2011 by posing on a girder 800ft above London. Lunch Atop A Skyscraper, Then And Now Pictures, Foto Langka, Lodz, Construction Worker, Foto Vintage, Photo Vintage, Before And After Pictures, Historical Pictures

Lunch atop a Skyscraper is a famous black-and-white photograph taken during construction of the RCA Building (renamed the GE Building in 1986) at Rockefeller Center in New York City, United States. Below is a picture of construction workers who recreated the classic photo in 2011 by posing on a girder 800ft above London.

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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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🔶 DIGITAL PRODUCT 🔶 🔶 This is not a physical item 🔶 This is a high quality digital download of the iconic New York photograph of men atop a skyscraper. Makes the perfect photographer's gift. We masterfully restored and colorized this breathtaking vintage photograph of 11 workers eating lunch on a steel beam as they were taking a break from building the RCA Building (30 Rockefeller). This 1930s photograph was taken during the skyscraper boom in NYC around the time the Empire State…

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Photographer Thomas Kelly shooting on beam of RKO building, NYC, 1932 Nyc Skyscrapers, Lunch Atop A Skyscraper, Pier Paolo Pasolini, History Architecture, Uni Room, Shoot Film, Photo B, Foto Vintage, City Photography

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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When you look back at these old photos of skyscraper construction, you'll see men way up high without harnesses, walking along beams suspended hundreds of feet above the street, and swinging on cables.

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I hope we get to see this traveling NYC sculpture by Sergio Furnari! Lunch Atop A Skyscraper, Centennial Park, Construction Workers, United We Stand, Small Sculptures, Construction Worker, Nyc Trip, Steel Structure, Big Apple

A work by Sergio Furnari on 6th Avenue, NY NY in 2007. This work was based on the photograph "Lunch atop a Skyscraper" taken by Charles C Ebbets on 29th September 1936. The subject was a group of of construction workers taking lunch while sitting on an iron girder on the 69th floor of the, under construction, RCA Building. photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7507248 othersiderainbow.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/lunch-on-skyscrap...

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