Neal Slavin
When Two or More are Gathered Together
November 23, 2024 - February 15, 2025
Archival Pigment Print
Paper size: 24 × 20 in.
Image size: 16 × 16 in.
Signed, titled, and dated in black ink on signature label on print verso
Acc# 12423
Digital C-Print
Paper size: 17 × 17 in.
Image size: 16 × 16 in.
Signed, titled, and dated in black ink on signature label on print verso
Acc# 11525
Digital C-Print
Paper size: 17 × 17 in.
Image size: 12.75 × 16 in.
Signed, titled, and dated in black ink on signature label on print verso
Acc# 11533
Archival Pigment Print
Paper size: 22 × 17 in.
Image size: 21 × 13.75 in.
Edition of 12
Signed, titled, dated with print date in pencil on print verso
Acc# 14244
Archival Pigment Print
Paper size: 17 × 22 in.
Image size: 16.13 × 21.38 in.
Signed, titled, dated with print date in pencil on print verso
Acc# 14247
Digital C-Print
Paper size: 16 × 20 in.
Image size: 13.25 × 19 in.
Signed, titled, and dated in black ink on signature label on print verso
Acc# 11565
Archival Pigment Print
Paper size: 22 x 17 in.
Image size: 20.5 x 16 in.
Signed, titled, dated with print date in pencil on print verso
Acc# 14243
Digital C-Print
Paper size: 17 × 17 in.
Image size: 13.38 × 16 in.
Signed, titled, and dated in black ink on signature label on print verso
Acc# 11527
Archival Pigment Print
Paper size: 20 × 24 in.
Image size: 16 × 18.75 in.
Signed, titled, and dated in black ink on signature label
Acc# 12425
Archival Pigment Print
Paper size: 17 x 22 in.
Image size: 15.25 x 21 in.
Signed, titled, dated with print date in pencil on print verso
Acc# 14245
Archival Pigment Print
Paper size: 17 × 22 in.
Image size: 16.13 × 20.13 in.
Edition of 12
Signed, titled, dated with print date in pencil on print verso
Acc# 14248
Archival Pigment Print
Paper size: 20 × 24 in.
Image size: 14.25 × 20 in.
Signed, titled, and dated in black ink on signature label
Acc# 12424
Digital C-Print
16 × 20 in.
Signed, titled, and dated in black ink on verso
Acc# 7637
Digital C-Print
Paper size: 17 × 17 in.
Image size: 16 × 16 in.
Signed, titled, and dated in black ink on signature label on print verso
Acc# 11531
Digital C-Print
16 × 20 in.
Signed, titled and dated on verso.
Acc# 7843
Digital C-Print
Paper size: 17 × 17 in.
Image size: 15.25 × 16 in.
Signed, titled and dated in black ink on signature label on print verso
Acc# 11582
Digital C-Print
Paper size: 17 × 17 in.
Image size: 12.5 × 16 in.
Signed, titled, and dated in black ink on signature label on print verso
Acc# 11526
Digital C-Print
Paper size: 16 × 20 in.
Image size: 14 × 19 in.
Signed, titled, and dated in black ink on signature label on print verso
Acc# 11563
Hardcover: 159 pages
Publisher: Damiani Books
When Two or More Are Gathered Together (Damiani Books, 2024) is a unique portrait of America and its idealistic underpinnings of individuality and liberty, memorialized in nostalgic photographs from the 1970s. Originally published in 1976 by Farrar Straus & Giroux, this expanded 50th anniversary edition is edited with an essay by Kevin Moore and new group portraits taken over a span of 50 years (1974- 2023).
In the 1970s, photographer Neal Slavin traveled around the United States documenting groups and gatherings. From bingo players to ballroom dancers, bodybuilders to gravediggers, Star Trek conventioneers to religious congregations, Slavin photographed seemingly every imaginable organization that humans have dreamed up. While the pictures themselves are most often posed, Slavin always asks that his subjects arrange themselves in front of the camera, allowing natural hierarchies, group dynamics, and indications of status to emerge.
This expanded 50th anniversary edition of When Two or More Are Gathered Together revisits the question of social unity in the United States at a fraught moment and includes new subjects—such as dogs, fencers, and chambermaids—with some photographed as recently as 2023. The essay by Kevin Moore offers historical context for this timely and relevant body of early color photography.
View the exhibition, When Two or More are Gathered Together, here.
