"'Time' magazine's cover image replacing immigrant workers with billionaire tech geeks is all kinds of wrong"
"Time magazine picked "the architects of AI" as its collective Person of the Year. Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Elon Musk and other tech moguls are on a cover that seeks to pay homage to the legendary American photograph 'Lunch Atop A Skyscraper'."
"The original photo was taken in 1932 by Charles Ebbets and features 11 ironworkers - all immigrants, two of them Irish - sitting on a steel beam high above Manhattan, eating their lunches during the construction of the Rockefeller Centre."
Time selected "the architects of AI" as a collective Person of the Year and placed Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Elon Musk and other tech moguls on the cover. The cover image intentionally echoes the American photograph 'Lunch Atop A Skyscraper'. The original 1932 photograph by Charles Ebbets shows 11 ironworkers, all immigrants and two Irish, sitting on a steel beam over Manhattan during Rockefeller Centre construction. Replacing those immigrant workers with billionaire tech figures raised objections about appropriating and rewriting an image tied to working-class and immigrant labor history.
Read at Independent
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]