This monochromatic lithograph is a classic example from Robert Longo's iconic Men in the Cities series, which portrays both men and women dressed in formal business attire and posed in writhing, dance-like and contorted poses. Beginning in the 1980s while living in New York, Longo chose several friends and peers to pose for him atop city buildings, while he and others threw objects at his subjects. Using these photographs, Longo then cropped out the images' contextual information, leaving spectacularly contorted yet oftentimes natural poses, many of which the artist himself could not have imagined.