Vertiginous Repose
Photograph
Vertiginous Repose
World's Biggest Building
1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 1/4 × 9 1/4 in. (15.9 × 23.5 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0247
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Pan Am) 5/62 10) VERTIGINOUS REPOSE: despite the sheer drop of 59 \ stories, this Pan Am Building highsteel worker "takes ten" \ atop one of the last steel girders to be placed on this giant \ commercial office building, the world's largest. In the back- ground, the CHrysler Building's spire, currently being cleaned \ (note light and dark areas.) \ Credit: Dan Budnik © 1962 MAGNUM Photos
