If this photograph were taken today how many safety codes do you suppose this guy would be violating?
Sure, his industry, labor and science built the world of tomorrow, but he's sitting on those insulators wrong today.
The guy who took the picture? He had no harness. Nor did he have, his wife discovered, life insurance. He slept on the couch for a week. "But it was a great shot" didn't go over well with her.