When was the last time you posed for a group photograph? Was it back in high school, on your last day at work, or perhaps during your birthday or wedding? What was the experience like for you? Maybe it involved stiff smiles, perfect postures, and hair swept back, with your hands at your sides like a young cadet reporting for duty.
A group portrait is often dictated by the photographer, often resulting in a sliver of what you imagined. But, this was never the case when photographer Neal Slavin began photographing groups in the 1970s. In fact, he did quite the opposite. "What I do is I ask someone in the group—it could be the director of the organization—to arrange the people as he or she sees fit," Slavin tells The Phoblographer. "Because I don’t know the hierarchy of the members in the group. . . The only thing I know is that they will be themselves after we start shooting. ". thephoblographer.com
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