Tag: FMDG Music School

Seeing Together: Neal Slavin and Leona Godin at the Cooper Union Library * Photo/Description Journal

On October 15 I was honored to have a conversation with photographer Neal Slavin at the Cooper Union Library that we called Seeing together: Photography Through Language and the Senses. We discussed several of his colorful group portraits, as well as one of his earliest photographs—a black and white portrait of  a blind woman in the subway, which is the… Read more

Neal Slavin’s “Blind Woman” (1963) * Image Descriptions

“New York City, Blind Woman” (1963) is by Neal Slavin, world-respected photographer and film director. I first met Neal, briefly, at the old Lighthouse Music School (now FMDG Music School), where he brought his ICP students to assist him in taking a large group shot of all us students—children and adults, with and without our instruments. More on that photo… Read more