If you are looking to frame a print in a non-traditional way, canvas works well with our reproduction maps because of its great texture and feel. The canvas base is enhanced with elastic polymers providing high tensile strength and flexibility for gallery wrap stretching without cracking. This elegantly textured canvas features a matte non-reflective surface with a bright white point, exceptionally high Dmax and a wide color gamut. Our reproduction maps look absolutely amazing on this paper.Ĭanvas: This paper is an acid free, lignin free, heavyweight cotton-poly blend, with 23 mil thickness. Does anyone live in Empire State Building 4. Is the Rockefeller Plaza 1932 picture real 3. Who took the picture of the men eating lunch on the skyscraper 2. It is the closest thing to the texture of the original map. Labor Day: Lunch atop a Skyscraper, was a staged photo of New York iron workers during the Depression The Washington Post. This paper is designed specifically to meet the needs of digital photographic output, photographic reproduction and presentation prints for display requirements, and it is used in printing fine art editions costing up to thousands of dollars per piece. The printed side of this paper has been specially coated to offer excellent image sharpness and optimal color gradation. This paper is 100% cotton rag and acid free, with a 19 mil thickness. On this particular day, though, they humored a photographer. The men were accustomed to walking along the girders of the RCA building (now called the GE building) they were constructing in Rockefeller Center.
This paper is a favorite among photographers, designers and artists.Ĭotton Fine Art Paper: This is a high-performance, velvet textured, archival fine art print paper. On September 20, 1932, high above 41st Street in Manhattan, 11 ironworkers took part in a daring publicity stunt. It provides the reproduction to have strong, vibrant color. Workers atop the 70-story RCA building in New Yorks Rockefeller Center lunch on a steel beam overlooking the city in 1932.
This matte paper is similar to “cardstock”, at 10.3 mil thickness, about double that of normal poster paper. He had to gather them back up, pose them again, and take the photo.Fine Art Paper: This is a high-performance, matte finished paper that works very well with our reproduction posters. After he had set up his camera and turned around, the men were leaving. Ebbets apparently saw these men eating their lunches on the beam and thought it would make a great picture. The construction company hired a number of well known photographers (including Ebbets) to chronicle the building of this structure. One of the legends about this picture was that it was a somewhat staged publicity stunt. Ebbets.ĭuring the Depression, this construction project employed over 40,000 folks (mostly Irish emigrants) to perform the various tasks required, making it the second largest employer in the country, after the U.S.Government’s Work Projects Administration (WPA). Published by the New York Herald Tribune on October 2, 1932, it was attributed to noted photographer, Charles E. On this particular day though, they humored a photographer, who was drumming up on excitement about the projects near completion. Known as “Lunch Atop A Skyscraper,” it depicts eleven construction workers taking a lunch break from building part of the Rockefeller Center complex (in this case, the RCA building) while sitting on a steel beam 850 feet (the 69th floor) above the New York skyline. Most people recognize this photo as one of the most iconic images taken during the Great Depression.
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