
Workers at the Sea, 1933

images that haunt us



Electricians put lights on the Eiffel Tower, 1937.

Unknown* :: ‘Lunch atop a Skyscraper’ / Construction workers eat their lunches atop a
steel beam 800 feet above ground, at the building site of the RCA
Building
(now the GE Building)
in Rockefeller Center, NYC, 20 Sep 1932.
(*) “the photographer and the identities of most of the subjects
remain a mystery—the photographers Charles C. Ebbets, Thomas Kelley and
William Leftwich were all present that day, and it’s not known which one
took it”
/
src: Metalocus
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Charles C. Ebbets

Victor Akhlomov :: On the Lenin Hills, Moscow, 1960. Artist’s collection. / source: MAMM

Boy watching billboard being installed, low angle shot, vintage snapshot, undated. / source: foundphotographs.com

Edwin Smith ::
Herring girls gutting fish on the quayside, North Shields, UK, 1930′s. RIBA Library Photographs Collection. / src: the guardian
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