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Lunch atop a Skyscraper: is a famous photograph taken by Charles C. Ebbets during construction of the GE Building at Rockefeller Center in 1932. The photograph depicts 11 men eating lunch, seated on a girder with their feet dangling hundreds of feet above New York City.

Charles Ebbets took the photo on September 29, 1932 and it appeared in the New York Herald Tribune on October 2. Taken on the 69th floor of the GE Building during the last several months of construction.

Ebbets was a well known photographer and had work published in the major newspapers across the nation including the New York Times.

His photographs were featured in the Miami Daily News, National Geographic, Outdoors Unlimited, Field & Stream, Popular Boating, U.S. Camera, Outdoor Life, Look Magazine, Popular Photography

Aperture: measured as f-number, which controls the amount of light passing through the lens. Aperture also has an effect on focus and depth of field, namely, the smaller the opening [aperture] the less light but the greater the depth of field - that is, the greater the range within which objects appear to be sharply focused.

Shutter speed: the speed (in fractions of seconds) that controls the amount of time during which the subject is exposed to light. Shutter speed may be used to control the amount of light striking the image plane; 'faster' shutter speeds. That is, those of shorter duration decrease both the amount of light and the amount of image blurring from subject motion or camera motion.

Margaret Burke-White Collection of Photographs

During World War II - Black and White Photography came into it own. War photojournalist cover battles equipped with Leica lens 35 mm SLR cameras Margaret Bourke-White, Robert Capa, Carl Mydans, and W. Eugene Smith cover the war for LIFE magazine.

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and David Seymour start the photographer Magnum picture agency

In 1948 Sweden produced SLR Hasselblad camera for commercial use. While in Japan introduced the Pentax camera and the automatic diaphragm; Polaroid sells instant black and white film

Chrysler Building New York

Lunch atop a Skyscraper: is a famous photograph taken by Charles C. Ebbets during construction of the GE Building at Rockefeller Center in 1932. The photograph depicts 11 men eating lunch, seated on a girder with their feet dangling hundreds of feet above New York City.

Charles Ebbets took the photo on September 29, 1932 and it appeared in the New York Herald Tribune on October 2. Taken on the 69th floor of the GE Building during the last several months of construction.

Ebbets was a well known photographer and had work published in the major newspapers across the nation including the New York Times.

His photographs were featured in the Miami Daily News, National Geographic, Outdoors Unlimited, Field & Stream, Popular Boating, U.S. Camera, Outdoor Life, Look Magazine, Popular Photography