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, taken on 29 September 1932 at the 69th floor of the Rockefeller Center, just before its completion was born. The picture shows eleven workers at an altitude of about 250 meters on a steel beam sitting on the precipice before the New York City skyline. For the first time in Germany this photo The title appeared in the " Berliner Zeitung Illustrirte " on 23 October 1932. Was there " coffee break ".

The photo is one of the most famous photographs of the 20th century.