SpaceX is not the first time the famous 1932Lunch Atop a Skyscraperimage has been revisited. Last year, a tourist attraction atop the Rockefeller Center was established to give visitors a chanceto (safely) recr
Lunch Atop a Skyscraper Photograph: The Story Behind the Famous Shot For 80 years, the 11 ironworkers in the iconic photo have remained unknown, and now, thanks to new research, two of them have been identified Bettmann / Corbis On September 20, 1932, high above 41st Street in ...
Wikimedia CommonsThe original photo, “Lunch atop a Skyscraper.” While the candid appearance of the workers in the photograph is certainly part of its appeal, the image was actually staged by the photographer as part of a publicity campaign. But to this day, no one knows for certain who a...