Picture This – School Lunch Atop A Skyscraper
Lunch Atop A Skyscraper is one of the most iconic photographs of all time. Taken in 1932, it shows a group of workers at the construction of New York’s RCA Building at 30 Rockefeller Centre, nonchalantly eating while sat on a girder suspended 250m above the ground. The above homage features pupils from Billesley Primary […]
- by Callum Fauser
- Editor of Teach Secondary magazine
Lunch Atop A Skyscraper is one of the most iconic photographs of all time. Taken in 1932, it shows a group of workers at the construction of New York’s RCA Building at 30 Rockefeller Centre, nonchalantly eating while sat on a girder suspended 250m above the ground.
The above homage features pupils from Billesley Primary School, Birmingham – who, rest assured, were seated on a beam suspended at a rather more sensible height of 1m above some crash mats. The idea to recreate to recreate the picture came from employees at construction firm Thomas Vale, who were carrying out council-funded improvements at the school, as a way of engaging pupils with the building work going on around them…
