A new attraction in New York City is giving visitors the opportunity to recreate the famous photo of construction workers sitting on a steel beam high above the city: Lunch Atop a Skyscraper.
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As you probably know by now, this month, TIME is busy sharing the stories behind the 100 most influential images of all time. And today, they shared some fascinating insights into the famous photograph of 11 construction workers having lunch on a steel beam 840 feet above New York City.
The photo above probably looks very familiar to you. Steel workers, eating lunch, sitting up very high in the air... rings a bell doesn't it? If you still haven't figured it out, the image above is a tongue-in-cheek recreation of the iconic 1932 photo "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper" by Charles C. Ebbets.
Lunch atop a Skyscraper is one of the most recognizable photos of the 20th century. The 1932 photo shows 11 construction workers taking a lunch break on a girder 850 feet above New York City. A second photo from the same shoot shows four of the men sleeping on the beam. The images are iconic and epic, but may not be as candid as they seem.
New emerging information about the images is casting doubt on the fact that they're simple snapshots showing ordinary workers on the job. Instead, the photos were reportedly staged as part of a promotional effort for the Rockefeller Center.