#RIP John Loengard
A portrait by Loengard's Life magazine colleague Bob Gomel, 1967
"I believe that each situation is an opportunity to entwine the ordinary and the unexpected into something beautiful and meaningful."

#RIP John Loengard
The cover of the November 19, 1971 Life magazine featured his photo of reporter Karen Thorsen peering through window gates of her East Side apartment after it was burglarized. Rather relevant today!

#RIP John Loengard
He was one of the group (along with Mary Dunn, Curt Davis & Richard B. Stolley) who planned the launch of @People magazine in 1974. They're shown here in a shot taken by another @Life great: Alfred Eisenstaedt.

A portrait of the late John Loengard by Alfred Eisenstaedt, from November 1981. Typically, Eisenstaedt paid close attention to his subject's eyes, but also took an interest in the stripes of Loengard's shirt. Such are the telling details of the great @Life photography tradition.

Here's something that nearly every one of us in lock-down can sympathize with: a sunset shot by John Loengard from his apartment window, from 1964. Look at how the curtains move in the wind. Alas, if even a tiny portion of our photos could look like this!

#RIP John Loengard
According to the Life caption for this 1967 shot, this was taken in an empty barn near his family's summer home in Maine. Not sure if this is one of his children, but it really reminds me of Gene Smith's famous photograph Walk to Paradise Garden, from 1946

I'll add some of my favourite John Loengard portraits from his Life magazine days. Beginning with Ad Reinhardt, from 1966.
#RIP

Georgia O'Keeffe by John Loengard, 1966

Bette Davis by John Loengard, 1963. This was from the Time Magazine 40th Anniversary celebrations

Walt Disney by John Loengard, 1962

Buckminster Fuller by John Loengard, 1970

Edward Hopper by John Loengard, 1963

Hedda Hopper by John Leongard, 1963. Two Hoppers in a row in this thread is a complete coincidence. Both shots are from 1963, but the gossip columnist is at the Time magazine 40th Anniversary party, while the painter is in his Washington Square apartment.