Author john-loengard

Soon after photography was invented in 1839, scientists were taking pictures by the light of electric sparks. (Henry Fox Talbot patented a method for doing so in 1851.) In the…

André Kertész took Satiric Dancer in 1926, a year after arriving in Paris at the age of 31. He was clowning around with some Hungarian pals in sculptor Istvá Beothy’s…

Louise Dahl-Wolfe écrivait : « j’adorais mon studio du Sherman Building, sur la 57e rue. C’était un vieil immeuble de brique rouge, qui datait de 1860. Nous avions pris pour…

I felt the only way to tell the story of Babe retiring was from the back. The number three was the thing I was interested in.…

In 1933 Lewis Hine sent photographs of the construction of the Empire State Building in New York City to Survey, a magazine that had […]…

Even before 1979, when Richard Avedon began a project he called In The American West, he had planned to photograph a man covered with […]…

In 1912, when Emmanuel Radnitsky was 12 and living in Brooklyn, his parents shortened the family name to Ray. Emmanuel (whom the family called Manny) now called himself Man Ray.…

Robert Capa wrote that on D-Day, 1944, he paused to change film while under intense fire on Omaha Beach. “The empty camera trembled in my hands,” he wrote. “It was…

Long after Wynn Bullock’s photograph of his daughter was used in the “Family of Man” exhibition, his wife Edna told photographer Donna Conrad, “We got letter and phone calls asking,…