William Wegman. All images © John Loengard/Courtesy Monroe Gallery.

A new exhibition of the work of LIFE magazine staff photographer and editor John Loengard’s black-and-white photographs is currently showing through the end of January at the Monroe Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Among the prints in the exhibition are several photographs of legendary photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alfred Eisenstadt, Annie Leibovitz and Richard Avedon. These photographs are also part of Loengard’s new book, Age of Silver: Encounters With Great Photographers (powerHouse), which celebrates, through Loengard’s portraits, some of the most notable photographers in the history of the medium.

Henri Cartier-Bresson sketching in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 1987.

Alfred Eisenstaedt holds the negative with his famous WWII photograph of a sailor and nurse kissing on VJ-day, New York City, 1992.