Photograph of Flavor Flav and Hot 97 staff at the airport: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A photograph of Flavor Flav and Hot 97 staff members at the airport. An unidentified man is standing in the center back of the photo, he is wearing sunglasses and has his hand up. Doctor Dré is standing on the far left of the photo and is wearing a baseball hat and a jacket. Ed Lover is standing to the right and slightly behind Dré, he is wearing a red, white, and blue jacket and shirt and is holding a cup in his proper right hand. Lisa Glasberg is standing in the center of the photo to the right of Lover. She is wearing a red and yellow shirt with a green jacket. Al Barry is standing to the right of Glasberg and is wearing a white and brown jacket. An unidentified man is standing on the far right of the photo wearing a white shirt. Flavor Flav is kneeling at the center bottom of the photo and is wearing a hat, plaid shirt, and large clock necklace. The back of the photograph is printed with the text [Long Life 100] and [Konica] in diagonal lines. The text [Living Color] is stamped in blue ink with [May 1995] stamped in blue ink below.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1995
• Photograph by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Flavor Flav, American, born 1959
• Subject of: Dr. Dre, American, born 1965
• Subject of: Ed Lover, American, born 1963
• Subject of: Lisa Glasberg, American, born 1956
• Subject of: Al Barry, American
• Subject of: Hot 97, American, founded 1948
• Type: chromogenic color prints
• Medium: dye and photographic gelatin on photographic paper and paper
• Dimensions: L x W (a. photo): 6 × 4 in. (15.2 × 10.2 cm)
• Dimensions: L x W (b. sticky note): 3 × 3 in. (7.6 × 7.6 cm)
• Place depicted: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: DJs (Musicians)
• Topic: Hip-hop (Music)
• Topic: Journalism
• Topic: Music
• Topic: Musicians
• Topic: Radio
• Topic: Rappers (Musicians)
• Object number: 2020.30.3.34
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Lisa G.
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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