Charles Clyde Ebbets
Charles Clyde Ebbets (born August 18, 1905 in Gadsden , Alabama , † July 14, 1978 ) was an American photographer .
Ebbets was commissioned in 1932 to document the construction of the Rockefeller Center . During this work his most famous photo, Lunch Atop a Skyscraper , was taken on September 29, 1932 on the 69th floor of the Rockefeller Center, shortly before its completion. The picture shows eleven workers at a height of about 250 meters sitting on a steel girder above the abyss in front of the silhouette of New York . This photo appeared for the first time in Germany in the Berliner Illustrirten Zeitung on October 23, 1932. The title there was breakfast break .
The photo is considered one of the most famous recordings of the 20th century.
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- ↑ The original: "Lunchtime atop a Skyscraper". Hamburger Abendblatt , February 27, 2007, accessed on July 11, 2011 .
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| SURNAME | Ebbets, Charles Clyde |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gadsden , Alabama |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 14, 1978 |