Author john-loengard

In 1844, Asa Whitney, a New Yorker, suggested that the federal government sponsor a transcontinental railroad to speed travel to the Far East. Congress surveyed routes and listened to pitches…

In the summer of 1936, Bud Field and his family posed for Walker Evans and James Agee, two young journalists from New York City on assignment for Fortune magazine to…

“I will be remembered when I’m in heaven,” says Alfred Eisenstaedt. “People won’t remember my name, but they will know the photographer of that picture of that nurse being kissed…

“One of the Beatles—George, I think—was on the phone to some fan. John hit him with a pillow. I said, ‘Do you do this often?’ and they said, ‘All the…

While nearly every photographer I’ve known handles negatives with their bare hands, nearly every curator puts on white cotton gloves. Yvonne Halsman, widow and collaborator of Philippe Halsman, hesitated a…

On August 9, 1863, the day before Alexander Gardner opened his new studio at 7th and D streets in Washington, President Abraham Lincoln came in to pose. The President used…

“The Louisville flood burst into the news almost overnight,” wrote Margaret Bourke-White, who was in New York City at the time.…

The Navy put lights on the rotor blades of a helicopter used in night missions and called in the press to show off its innovation. After newspapers had published their…