I’ve written before about my favourite photograph, you can read about it here.
Today, I came across a remarkable photo related to that one and was genuinely surprised. In all my reading about the circumstances surrounding the image and the background of the photographer, I’d never really considered his position whilst taking it.
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This is my favourite photograph, Lunch Atop A Skyscraper. Taken in 1932 during the construction of the Rockerfeller Centre, New York, it depicts 11 workmen casually having lunch utterly unconcerned that their legs are dengling some 260 metres above the city streets.
…I love photographs. I love the way they capture a moment in time without the context of what happened in the time either side. That fraction of a second, in this busy world, is frozen in time forever and the format is standing the test of time despite advances in video, virtual and augmented reality.
The photo below is epic and is one of my favourites. The detail of the moon’s surface and the contrasting blackness of the space beyond are reflected perfectly in the visor of the helmet… along with the photographer. Neil Armstrong will be remembered forever from that grainy footage as he stepped into a new world. However, due to him being the first on the surface, he was given the camera and took this image of Buzz Aldrin which has immortalised his place in the mission.
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