LaborArts


Photograph

Item no. 28270
1946
New York
Collection: Other

Brooklyn Bridge, 1946.

The cigar in the mouth of the worker holding the rope gives us some indication of the casualness with which he views the job, although the viewer may wonder if the object of his manipulations shares his sense of confidence.

Photograph by Arthur Leipzig.


See this image in the Portraits of Labor exhibit.


Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City.

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