A picture and its story

One of the most reproduced photographs that I like and it is titled "Lunch atop a Skyscraper" (lunch on top of a skyscraper). This popular photograph was taken by American photographer Charlie Clyde Ebbets. It was part of a report he made to denounce the precarious security conditions were the workers of the skyscrapers that were built in the area of the Rockefeller Center in New York in the 30s.

The image was taken on 29 September 1932 and not published until October 2 photography in a supplement of the New York Herald Tribune. The construction that were conducting these workers is the GE Building Building of 259 meters and 70 floors, today is the seventh highest in the city.

Besides why cualas photo was taken, I think the height and freedom where people are is a meaningful picture of the time, just before the Great Depression.

(https://javierferdo.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/lunch-atop-a-skyscraper/)