Students Shoot Themselves

A photography class contemplates posterity.

PHOTOGRAPHS OF students in a college yearbook don't look like the images professionally packaged in the admissions packet. Student photographers don't have the technique of the professionals. What they have is a two-way relationship with their subjects. At a small college like Dartmouth the people behind and in front of the lens are either friends, classmates, brothers, sisters, teammates, roommates, lovers, or any combination of the above. And those relationships are recorded on film, not for the purpose of selling an institution to incoming high schoolers, but to reveal the ways students see one another. Brian Miller's photography class took these pictures for the Alumni Magazine on Wednesday, November 4, 1998. Here are the portraits the students captured.