Construction of the Triborough Bridge, N.Y.
1936
A gelatin silver photograph that captures the steel skeleton and rigging of the Triborough Bridge under construction, using workers and machinery to convey the scale and drama of the project.
Stark, black silhouettes of girders, cranes, and hanging cables slice across a foggy river, while a distant arched bridge looms and a tiny workboat carves a bright wake below, giving a thrilling sense of scale and depth.
It documents the machine-age ambition of 1930s urban infrastructure and exemplifies how photographers turned large-scale industrial work into modern visual poetry that reveals both engineering power and human labor.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
7 1/8 × 9 1/8" (18.1 × 23.2 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the Times Wide World Photos
Accession
84.1941
Palette
Exhibitions
