It was one of the most exciting places to take photos and I could hardly take a bad shot. From this height people were almost invisible, automobiles and buses reduced to moving shapes in a spider web of streets. I would look around in awe at the city framed all around me by rectangles of girder and rebar. I did a lot of construction photography in the 1970s and 1980s in Seattle and I remember how it felt to stand 50 or 60 stories above the city streets. The movie, Men at Lunch, delves into the story of the photo and the loss of the original glass plate negative and finally its re-discovery. Their ease is what makes this such an amazing photo, especially since several men fell to their deaths in the course of building Rockefeller Center. Ebbets on September 29, 1932, during the construction of GE building at Rockefeller Center, and the workers seem remarkably at ease on their lofty steel perch. It is, in many ways, a scary image made scarier by the lack of any sort of safety gear. The photo, "Lunch atop a Skyscraper," shows 11 construction workers calmly eating lunch, while sitting next to each other on a long steel girder, framed by the city far below them.
CHARLES EBBETS PHOTO MOVIE
(You can see the movie trailer at the bottom of this post.) The story of the construction of these skyscrapers, and one iconic photo in particular, is the basis for Men at Lunch, one of the films selected for this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. EbbetsĮveryone can identify New York City simply by its unique skyscraper filled skyline.
Lunch atop a Skyscraper ( New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam) by Charles C.
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