Picture Of Construction Workers Eating Lunch On Beam

The photograph depicts 11 men eating lunch seated on a girder with their feet dangling 840 feet 260 meters above the new york city streets.

Picture of construction workers eating lunch on beam.

The photos feature workers perched precariously on the skeleton of a skyscraper and their daily work appeared to be more like a death defying stunt than an average 9 to 5. The photograph depicts eleven men eating lunch seated on a girder with their feet dangling 256 meters 840 feet above the new york city streets. The picture that proves why iconic photograph of workers eating their lunch on rockefeller beam was all a publicity stunt. Lunch atop a skyscraper photograph.

In fact corbis images who own the rights to the photo say that it is the biggest selling historical image in their collection topping photographs. But lunch atop a skyscraper was different. Lunch atop a skyscraper shows a group of new york construction workers casually taking a lunch break while they sit on a beam hundreds of feet in the air. But the most iconic of these photographs is no doubt the one of several workers eating lunch on a construction beam hovering hundreds of feet in the air with no obvious signs.

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. The photograph was taken on september 20 1932 on the 69th floor of the rca building during the last months of construction. According to archivists the photograph was in fact prearranged.