Viewfinder The unexpected delight of group photos August 01, 2024 Constraints can be liberating. My father was a cartoonist, and at public events, he’d ask someone to put three big marks on a piece of paper—lines, squiggles, blotches—and then tell him what to draw: a house, a horse, a flower. Somehow, he could always do it—but the angle and approach would be unexpected. That memory returned as I explored the forthcoming revised edition of Neal Slavin’s When Two or More Are Gathered Together,
