John Loengard: Brassai's Eye, Paris, 1981
LIFE magazine photographer John Loengard passed away May 24 in New York
City at age 86.
John Loengard
was born in New York City in 1934, and received his first assignment from LIFE
magazine in 1956, while still an undergraduate at Harvard College. He joined the
magazine's staff in 1961, and in 1978 was instrumental in its re-birth as a
monthly, serving as picture editor until 1987. Under his guidance in 1986, LIFE
received the first award for "Excellence in Photography" given by the American
Society of Magazine Editors.
After LIFE magazine suspended
weekly publication in 1972, Loengard joined Time Incorporated’s Magazine
Development Group as the picture editor of LIFE Special Reports. He was also
picture editor of People magazine during its conception in 1973 and the first
three months of its publication in 1974
In 2005,
American Photo magazine identified Loengard as “One of the 100 most influential
people in photography,” and in 2018 he was inducted into the International
Photography Hall of Fame.
In 1996,
Loengard received a Lifetime Achievement Award "in recognition of his
multifaceted contributions to photojournalism," from Photographic Administrators
Inc.
Loengard
authored ten books, including: Pictures Under Discussion, which won the Ansel
Adams Award for book photography in 1987, Celebrating the Negative, and Georgia
O'Keeffe at Ghost Ranch. His book, LIFE Photographers: What They Saw, was named
one of the year's ten top books for 1998 by the New York Times
John Loengard: Henry Moore's 'Sheep Piece", 1983
John Loengard: Georgia O'Keeffe with basket, 1966
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