All of the visual elements familiar today fell into place when the first officially approved group photograph was taken, in color, in 1965. Since 1941, the group photograph has been taken in the Supreme Court Building, which helped standardize it even further. The Court eventually settled on some ground rules-for example, posing together only after a new Justice arrived, and in an arrangement based on seniority. While this custom probably began at the urging of Washington photographers interested in print sales, it ended up becoming one of the Court’s most popular and enduring traditions.įor 75 years after the first group photograph in 1867, the Justices gathered occasionally for a succession of several talented photographers who had just as many approaches for portraying the Justices.
Few visual cues say “Supreme Court” as well as its group photograph.
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