John Loengard

A collection of interviews and 270 photographs traces the work, experiences, and careers of the original staff photographers of LIFE magazine, documenting how they pioneered the picture story and the photographic essay. 15,000 first printing.

What They Saw

Life Photographers

John Loengard, one of the great LIFE magazine photographers, sums up his fifty-year career in this handsome volume. From a shimmering Marilyn Monroe to a man dozing on the beach, from a guffawing Ronald Reagan to Henri Cartier-Bresson flying a kite, from a groundskeeper in Dublin to picnickers in Central Park, Loengard's vision moves us with its humanity and artistry.

The Photographs of John Loengard

As I See it

Every photograph - whether family snapshot or museum masterpiece - comes to life out of the silver shadows in the negative. Yet the value and intrinsic beauty of the photographic negative have been woefully underappreciated. Auction houses disdain negatives of even the most celebrated photographs, insurance companies routinely underestimate their worth, and the general public never gets to see them. Only archivists, dealers and photographers themselves understand how priceless, unique and visually stunning negatives truly are. Celebrating the Negative rectifies matters in glorious fashion. John Loengard has tracked down and photographed the negatives of some of the most famous images ever made: Alexander Gardner's legendary portrait of Abraham Lincoln and Walker Evans' haunting portrait of Bud Fields and his family; Ansel Adams' serene Moonrise, Hernandez, N. Mex. and Robert Capa's D-day beachhead. Loengard's work literally and figuratively illuminates these negatives, revealing how the photographer has manipulated the image to produce the final print by choosing what to crop or enlarge, what to darken or lighten. The mastery of Man Ray, Yousuf Karsh, Alfred Stieglitz, Margaret Bourke-White, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Andre Kertesz and Edward Weston, to name but some of the many photographers represented here, shows up in their negative capability.

Celebrating the Negative

From a dazzling panorama of more than 50 years and 2,000 issues, John Loengard has selected over 100 of his favorite images--"photographs that stick in the mind". Readers witness the thinking, skill, tenacity, imagination, and vision necessary to create classics. 37 color, 65 black-and-white illustrations.

Classic Photographs : A Personal Interpretation

Life

A selection of 100 favorite photographs from 50 years of Life magazine.

A Personal Interpretation

Life Classic Photographs

Yet the pictures offer a clear connection between the austere poetry of the landscape and O'Keeffe's own self-created outer and inner worlds, her artistic imagination being filtered by the bleached bones and infinite emptiness of the desert, which, as she said herself, "knows no kindness with all its beauty".

A Photo Essay

Georgia O'Keeffe at Ghost Ranch

A retrospective of the fifty-year career of the acclaimed LIFE magazine photographer offers more than 120 unforgettable images of celebrities, movie stars, writers, politicians, artists, and others, including his studies of Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan, and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

As I See It

Gordon Parks

This is a volume of living history - the history of our times, as seen by the photographers who captured it. It is the most comprehensive anthology of LIFE photography ever assembled, and illustrates the strengths that made many of these individuals famous - and LIFE great. This book, an enormous international success in hardback, is now available in a new, compact, paperback edition.

The Great Life Photographers

"American Photographer magazine hailed John Loengard as "Life's most influential photographer." His graphically bold but subtly surprising studies of personalities have established his pre-eminence as a portraitist. In his first book Pictures Under Discussion, previously unpublished landscapes and still lifes are combined with these powerful portraits to attest to the penetration of his eye and to give new dimension to his photographic achievement."--Amazon.

Pictures Under Discussion

Photographic portraits taken in 1966 and 1967 of O'Keefe and her New Mexico surroundings are paired with reproductions of her some of her paintings.

Georgia O'keeffe by John Loengard

Image and Imagination

David Friend

A collection of portraits of some of the most important photographers of the last half-century, including Annie Leibovitz, Ansel Adams, Man Ray, Richard Avedon, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Henri Cartier-Bresson and many others. Leongard caught them at home and in the studio; in posed portraits and in candid shots of the artists at work and at rest. Complementing these revealing, expertly composed portraits are elegant photographs of the artists holding their favourite or most revered negatives. This beautifully printed duotone monograph presents a unique, personal vision.

John Loengard

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