In a painting no one complains that the subject is posed, but everybody complains about what looks posed in a photograph. Except, I've found that if …

- John Loengard

When I go to photograph somebody, they say, "What do you want me to do?" Those are the most frightening words in the English language. I want to say,…

- John Loengard

Working alone on stories, I began to feel the anonymity of motels on interstate highways reached by jet planes and rental cars. It was hard to have a…

- John Loengard

A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there i…

- John Loengard

There are two kinds of photographs: mine and other people's. I never think of what I might do myself when I look at someone else's pictures... there …

- John Loengard

The fact is that the camera is literal if anything, which gives it something in common with a thermometer... Often the tension that exists between th…

- John Loengard

Usually I think if there is something imperfect in a photograph it makes the picture more real. Photographs that are slick, smooth, and imperfect see…

- John Loengard

Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty.

- John Loengard

Teachers don't work in the summer, and photographers don't shoot in in the middle of the day.

- John Loengard