Author john-loengard

Dmitri Baltermants, graduated in mathematics from Moscow University just before World War II and became a photographer. As a war correspondent for the newspaper Izvestiya, he flew into the Crimean…

Robert Shnayerson, the matchless editor, wrote me, “I confess that a fascination with impermanence—the world's torrential changes—has given me a respect for photography as an art of freezing instants that…

Lorsque Brett Weston a invité la presse à célébrer ses 80 ans le 16 Décembre 1991 à Carmel, en Californie, il a dit qu'il brûlerait ses négatifs pendant la fête.…

“Today, if a negative does not print simply and easily, I throw it away,” wrote Ralph Steiner in 1978.…

“My mother looked for the ‘nodes’—the points where she felt thought and purpose and motion in dance came together,” says Doug Morgan. She wanted a moment when the dancer defies…

Eugene Smith explained that errant light practically ruined his photograph of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, taken at his missionary hospital in Gabon, in west central Africa. Days in the darkroom, Smith…

“When I am with a camera, I feel I am the most important person in the world,” said Yousuf Karsh to describe his encounter […]…

Arthur Fellig, known as Weegee, waited on the sidewalk in 1943 as Mrs. George W. Kavanaugh (third person from the right) arrived for the start of the 60th Season of…