{"id":17236,"date":"2020-04-22T05:05:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T09:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=17236"},"modified":"2020-04-20T20:07:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T00:07:40","slug":"taking-a-bite-in-the-big-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/taking-a-bite-in-the-big-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"taking a bite in the big apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17239\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SkyscraperLunchNYC1932.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17239\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17239\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SkyscraperLunchNYC1932-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">eating high on the hog<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. This photo was taken in 1932 by an unknown photographer, \u00a0It shows a bunch of skyscraper workers sitting out in space along a girder as they eat lunch high above NYC at a time when many skyscrapers were being built.\u00a0Some buildings used Iroquois from Canada to do this daring work. Modern day Safety rules would ban such derring do.<\/p>\n<p>The photo is selected by<a href=\"http:\/\/100photos.time.com\"> TIME magazine<\/a> as one of 100 all time most influential photographs. I did a similar post from this series in <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=14838\">June of 2019<\/a>\u00a0on Edgerton and his electronic flash experiments.<\/p>\n<p>In both cases, a big thank you goes to my friend and fellow PHSC member, George Dunbar, who is pursuing his interest in photographic history from retirement. As many know, George is a photographer and videographer in his own right (and a speaker, writer, and contributor to the PHSC).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. This photo was taken in 1932 by an unknown photographer, \u00a0It shows a bunch of skyscraper workers sitting out in space along a girder as they eat lunch high above NYC at a time when many skyscrapers were being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/taking-a-bite-in-the-big-apple\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[231,3099,2443,327,613,495,3097,3098],"class_list":["post-17236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-canada","tag-iroquois","tag-life-magazine","tag-nyc","tag-photo","tag-photograph","tag-sky-scraper","tag-skyscraper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17241,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17236\/revisions\/17241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}