Reader Poll: Iconic Photo or PR Stunt?
There’s been a bit of a back-and-forth online today about whether this famous photo—which turned 80 today—was a classic example of in-the-moment photojournalism or a well-executed PR stunt.
The pic, titled “Lunch atop a Skyscraper”, depicts a crew of laborers in the process of building New York’s Rockefeller Center in 1932; it originally appeared in the New York Herald Tribune, and it remains Corbis’s top-selling historical image. We mostly remember it from its prominent place on the ceiling of our high school dentist’s office.
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