John Loengard:
From the website: Loengard, a longtime LIFE magazine photographer (when it was the old weekly LIFE) and the first photo editor of People magazine), has said that he wants his photos to appear to pull the rug out from under the viewer.
From the website: For example, when he was sent to Miami in 1964 to do a story about the Beatles on their first visit to the US, he conceived the idea of photographing them as bodiless floating heads. "It was cold in Florida at the time, and we tried to find a heated swimming pool for them, but without success. Sowe settled for an unheated one. They weren't at all cooperative - they didn't want to get in - but their manager, Brian Epstein, said, 'Life is important. Get in,' and they did. It was very, very cold, and they were turning blue, so after a minute or two we let them get out."
John Loengard at Gallery M
