"A Part of a Day's Work for an Endurance Flyer"
1930
A gelatin silver photograph that captures an aviation worker clinging to the nose of a single‑engine airplane while it flies, made to document the daring labor and spectacle of endurance flying.
The image hits you with a visceral mix of tension and motion—the man pressed against the fuselage beside the blurred, spinning propeller, the aircraft’s wheels and struts rendered in sharp detail against a soft, receding landscape.
As a 1930 newsreel photograph, it shows how photojournalism transformed feats of modern technology and risk into public spectacle, helping to shape the visual language that documented industrial progress and human daring.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
7 3/16 × 9 5/16" (18.3 × 23.7 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
The New York Times Collection
Accession
2027.2001
Palette
Exhibitions
