

The head of Orion publishing, Iryna Krasutska, who’s company printed the book, told the Kyiv Post that the wrong photo was included in error, but Igor Shchupak, the book’s authors, begs to differ.

What is surprising is that the doctored image somehow found it’s way into a 10th-grade history textbook published in 2018. So it’s not surprising that someone added Reeves to the famous skyscraper photo. It started with people merely adding captions to the image, but soon Reeves found himself photoshopped into all sorts of situations, from the historical to the fictitious. It quickly found it’s way onto 4chan, where it became a meme known the world over as “Sad Keanu”. The paparazzi photo of Keanu Reeves sitting by himself on a bench eating a sandwich was taken in 2010 by Ron Asadorian, a photographer for Splash Magazine. Below is Ebbets’ original unedited photo. There’s some dispute as to the identity of the photographer, but it was most likely taken by Charles Clyde Ebbets, who, before the iconic photo, was best known as the official staff photographer for heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey. The photograph, entitled “Lunch atop a Skyscraper”, was taken in Manhattan during the construction of 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Reeves can be seen on the far right of the photo. The actor was recently spotted in a photo taken in 1932 and which appears in a 10th-grade Ukrainian history textbook. We now have further proof that Keanu Reeves is immortal.
