As part of my research at the Metropolitan Museum of Art I tried to locate sites within the museum where Edward Milla's presence could still be felt or even seen in some way.

Apart from his authorship of thousands of photographs now residing in the Met's photography studio negative files, Milla's work could also be found (until recently) as part of a set of photo murals located just inside the 81st St. entrance. Several of the photographs were part of Milla's own 1951 exhibition. Recently these murals have been taken down.

Another less public site where Edward Milla appears is in the form of a large pair of photomurals found at the entrance to the Met's Photography Studio. The studio still occupies some of the same space in which Milla worked up until his retirement in 1953, in what is called the High Attic of the museum, located around the domes one can see by looking up at the ceiling of the main foyer of the museum. At the time I saw these murals they were not captioned or credited but appeared to stand as iconic or symbolic references to the history of the photo studio as such.

The first four photographs above, taken in 2000 in the places mentioned above at the Met, were the impetus for beginning a parallel project, Between art & Art, mentioned in the opening paragraph of the first page of this section of my website. That continuing project has expanded to include many other museums besides the Metropolitan Museum of Art.