He’s not on the unfinished Empire State Building because the finished building is behind him.
Looks like something in midtown. Maybe Rockefeller Building?
I have no eye for landmarks, fixed
Chrysler building?
So… Who took this picture?
Another Charles Ebbets
He himself took the picture with two perfectly arranged mirrors
I can’t tell if this is real or not.
With nice spectator shoes with leather soles for maximum slippage.
I wonder how he can squeeze his legs so much with the gigantic balls of steel he has
Dude is hundreds of feet in the air, clinging to an I-Beam, holding steady enough to take an iconic picture… in fucking wing-tip shoes…
I don’t know why… but it’s the shoes out of all of it that makes this whole thing a thousand times more absurd…
If the passion for his photography wasn’t hot enough, already, the wingtips make it a thousand times better…
He’s got a whole Buster Keaton thing going on.
Wow the smog is disgusting.
Terrible era to have lungs in.
Coal…furnaces, ships, trains, etc.
None of that shoes, clothes, beam, or height matters.
If you’re a photographer, the only thing that matters is holding the camera and taking the shot.
Old school cool.
I hate this.
I’m trying to see if his shoes are tied with a square knot.
I had a friend who worked high steel and cranes and he said his guys used short laces with square knots so they didn’t untie easily and if they did the ends weren’t a tripping hazard.
I don’t know when that started, but it looks like his shoes don’t have loops.
Great way to tie hiking shoes, round-section laces work best.
I don’t think this is real
