Annfinee Solomon
Pro. S. Scalan
Eng. 1101
9/30/2015
My favorite photo
While the pictures depict a particular time in America Society, the most remarkably one to me is the “rivet attaching a beam” by Lewis Hines. Hines skillful captures thousand of construction workers, electricians, and other in precarious positions to construct the Empire State Building in 1931. In his photo, the human condition is imposed upon me by his striking juxtaposing of the workers to the mammoth scale of the steel beams.
The photo was captured in 1931, an era that surrounds the great depression, which is an economic crisis that hindered the nation severely. In a way, the workers on the tremendous height of the structure are evident of the characteristics of America’s society. The worker tenacity that is evoked in the images to build this towering structure in the midst of the deep economic trough represents the society determination to rise above the struggle, and oppression of the Great Depression, looking towards to future, promising Americans that all was not lost. The worker bravery, swinging through the sky on cranes, walking on beams with no safety harness, and pride in riveting the beams is as iconic the building begin a center piece of the most innovative culture, standing 86 flights, scrapping through the sky, unchallenged by any other Nation. Hines photo is significant in generating the great symbol of prosperity.
I chose you post, because i found interesting the way you explain how all this workers in that era worked, in the conditions that they were working and all the things that happened to them in that time. Also well explanation of the situation of the economy in New York in that exact time. Well done, i chose the same pic because of the same reason, is interesting to know about history and here it’s a well explanation of it with this photo.
There’s a sort of appealing attribute to watching people work, especially in the 1900s. They sort of look like toy figurines, or some kind of simulation, in the sense of the old-timey videos that often had narration on the building and the processes to get to the finish.