Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>>just wanted to know what you all think of the work of john loengard. i >>picked up a (used) book of his work the other day. it's called "pictures >>under discussion" and includes many images he did for life magazine. >>[snip] >>i like what i've seen of his (particularly his portraits, which are >>occasionally stunning) and was wondering if he had other fans on the lug. >> >>guy > >me too, i liked the 'pictures under discussion'. > >i also have his book 'life photographers, what they saw' which >contains recent interviews with 40-50 life staff photographers from >the start of publication until it ended. i liked the first half of >the book, but then the law of diminish return took its toll. it >became rather repetetive, so i have put it aside for a while. > >loengard has also written a book called 'the negative and something'. >I would be interested to hear how it dealss with negatives and if it >is worth ordering, as i have not seen it in any bookshop. > >chris i've also got (and got through) "what they saw" which, though repetitive, i found quite interesting. also, it turned me on to quite a few photographers that i was previously unaware of. his book on negatives seems to be just that: a book made up of photographs of other photographers negatives. while i don't know how interesting that book will be to me, i do like his thought: prints generally exceed in value the negatives from which they are produced. why is that? i think his idea was to document the sources of iconic "great" prints. guy