The “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” photograph was in the Bettmann Archive collection. In 1995, Corbis Images, a company that offers archived images to professional photographers, bought a collection called the Bettmann Archive with over eleven million images. The photographs alone can give you vertigo. Central Park is visible in the background. It was first published in the Sunday New York Herald Tribune on October 2, 1932, with the caption: “Lunch atop a Skyscraper.” Other photographs taken depict the workers throwing a football and pretending to sleep on the girder. The photograph was taken as part of a campaign promoting the skyscraper. The helmet was always banging against the camera as you tried to frame a shot. Insurance and OSHA rules required us to wear safety equipment including a harness that was to be always connected to a beam in case you fell. IRC veterans: connect to once filmed workers in a building under construction in a similar but less grand setting. Shopping using these links generates cash for /r/photography projects, such as prizes for our competitions.
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