RECOMMENDED: 120th anniversary - Charles Clyde Ebbets / 1905-2025 📷 🏗️ 🏬 ☁️ 🗽 🇺🇸
„(...) in 1932 he was contracted to work on behalf as of the new Rockefeller Center as their photographic director covering the massive construction project. His assignment was to take photos that would gain widespread notoriety for the center and thus help lease it out during the economically tough post-depression times that surrounded its completion. (...)”
„(...) During WW II, Ebbets served as the Photographic Director for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Institutes operations in Florida and South America. He documented all phases of their military operations from ground-breakings, to training, to visiting dignitaries, to confidential aerial photography of bases and terrain. (...)”
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„The 3rd MOST LIKED Photo of 2024: Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer generally credited with taking the famous "Lunch atop a Skyscraper" image, positioned on a beam taking a photograph in New York City in 1932 during the construction of the RCA Building. Ebetts was the photographic director for the Rockefeller Center's development and while he is generally credited with taking the Lunch atop a Skyscraper photograph, there is some uncertainty as other photographers were present during the shoot.” - post by History in Color, December 26, 2024
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