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The photographer in that first picture may not be Ebbets. This is apparently him:
https://www.ebbetsphoto-graphics.com/page/home/#/page/home/
https://www.ebbetsphoto-graphics.com/page/about-the-artist/#...
Credit to /u/notbob1959 for some detective work:
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/nn4q4j/h...
WaPo has a good article, and Wikipedia has some more info:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/09/01/one-most-i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper
More high steel photos here:
https://historydaily.org/charles-ebbets-lunchtime-atop-a-sky...
https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/lunch-atop-a-skyscraper-sto...
Some of these photos use the same camera trick that Harold Lloyd used in Safety Last!. The camera angle makes it look like it would be a direct fall to street level, when in fact there is a solid floor below, just out of the camera's view:
http://www.westerncostumeresearch.com/western-costume-resear...
https://silentlocations.com/2012/02/29/how-harold-lloyd-film...
That's not to say any of this wasn't dangerous! Just perhaps not quite as dangerous as they look.
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The photographer in that first picture may not be Ebbets. This is apparently him:
https://www.ebbetsphoto-graphics.com/page/home/#/page/home/
https://www.ebbetsphoto-graphics.com/page/about-the-artist/#...
Credit to /u/notbob1959 for some detective work:
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/nn4q4j/h...
WaPo has a good article, and Wikipedia has some more info:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/09/01/one-most-i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper
More high steel photos here:
https://historydaily.org/charles-ebbets-lunchtime-atop-a-sky...
https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/lunch-atop-a-skyscraper-sto...
Some of these photos use the same camera trick that Harold Lloyd used in Safety Last!. The camera angle makes it look like it would be a direct fall to street level, when in fact there is a solid floor below, just out of the camera's view:
http://www.westerncostumeresearch.com/western-costume-resear...
https://silentlocations.com/2012/02/29/how-harold-lloyd-film...
That's not to say any of this wasn't dangerous! Just perhaps not quite as dangerous as they look.