WNYC’s New Deal murals

Last week, I was contacted by the Archives and Preservation unit of public radio station WNYC, asking permission to use a photo of mine (showing the façade of the Metropolitan Museum of Art), which they had found on Flickr. (With many people on Flickr licensing their photos through Creative Commons, Flickr is not just a photo album, but also becoming a rich and rapidly expanding repository of stock photography.) They wanted to include my photo as a context shot in a multimedia slideshow about a series of WPA murals painted for the station in the 1930s; one of the murals, by Stuart Davis, is now housed at the Met. I just received word that the slideshow is now complete and on the web. Cool! It’s some really interesting stuff. Check it out (requires Flash).

Below are the original photo and a screenshot of the slideshow; my photo appears briefly near the end of the first chapter.