Dubai, Lunch Atop A Skyscraper - Real or Fake? I ICONIC PHOTOGRAPHS #5
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Lunch atop a Skyscraper, also known as „New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam“, taken 1932 during the Great American Depression, is the most iconic photograph of a 1932 series of pictures taken on the construction site of the RCA Building in Manhattan, New York. Although impressive, the question lingers, is this picture real or fake? Who was the photographer? Was it Charles C. Ebbets or Lewis Hine? And have any workers been identified? Find out all about it right here! My name is Markus Kretzschmar and I love to learn about famous images in photojournalism history. So I decided to make videos about them which you can find on my channel. More about me at: www.markuskretzschmar.com www.twitter.com/MK_youtube CREDITS: "Lunch Atop A Skyscraper" - Corbis Images Seán Ó Cualáin Portrait - his twitter profile @fearCharna GE building photo - Wikipedia user "Postdlf from w" www.blog.reuter.com Portrait of Charles Ebbets - http://www.ebbetsphoto-graphics.com "Sleeping On A Girder" - Corbis Images "Friends Atop A Skyscraper" - Warner Bros. Television Lego reenactment - Flickr user "Balakov" "Lunch Break On A Deathstar" - "das chupa" zero-lives.blogspot.com I do not own the copyright to any of the (moving) images displayed in my videos. If I happen to have made a mistake please tell me about the correct copyright owner.
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I'll check out another video on this photo; i can't stand the guy presenting it.
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Pipocando INTRO!
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The first photo that you showed is my great grandfather the second to last one
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This picture is hanging in a hallway in one the NY Veterans Administrations and I pass it everyday, and never fails to get my heart pumping....
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What do you use as dental floss, rope?
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Thank you for making clear the BIG difference between posed and journalistic images. Nothing wrong with posed, just as long as it isn't passed-off as journalism.
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It is right that only two workers can be identified with clear names by the TV documentary of O Cualain, but you got the names wrong. Probably you did not watch the entire documentary. There was another picture taken on the same day with four men taking a nap atop the building (you actually showed it!). Two men were unmistakely identified on that picture as Josef Eckner (3rd from the left in the "lunch" picture) and Joe Curtis (2rd from the right). All other names can not be verified and are claims by relatives of the alleged workers without historical sources, mainly based on oral family stories and comparisons to photos of the relatives, including the two irishmen you mentioned. The problem is that more then 45 claims can be regarded as serious candidates that way, but only 9 persons remain to be identified as of today.
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Another fascinating episode! Thank you Markus. This image makes my stomach turn every time I look at it!
I seem to remember reading somewhere that although the beam on which the men are sitting appears to be suspended over the city 850 feet below they are in fact sitting above a finished floor of the building just a few feet below them. -
Only 80 years? I thought that picture was from like the 1850s. Still such an awesome video. My dad has this picture in his log room.
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Keep up the good work, dude. Liked ;D
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I got inside a riot for a photograph.
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