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Lot ID: 10363
Jacques  Lowe:   Jackie and Caroline
 
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Description
Artist: Lowe Jacques
Title: Jackie and Caroline
Style: Contemporary, Documentary/Photojournalism
Period: 1958-1962
Medium: Photographs, Chromogenic Print (C-print)
Year: 1960
Print/Casting Year: 2000
Size: height - 20 in, width - 16 in, depth - 0 in cm
Markings: signed, Signature - lower right hand corner
numbered - lower left hand corner

Edition: 2/5
Estimate: from US$8,000 to US$10,000

Seller's Description:
Jacques Lowe, Jackie and Caroline, 1960. C-print, 20 x 16 inches, 50.8 x 40.64 centimeters. Edition 2/5, signed. Framed.

Jacques Lowe was an internationally renowned photographer and photojournalist who was best known for his portraiture of the leading personalities of our time, nationally and internationally, in politics, business, and the entertainment world.

In 1951, Mr. Lowe was a prizewinner in LIFE magazine's contest for young photographers, after which Roy Stryker, the grand old man of photography, gave him an eight-week assignment in Europe.
Starting in 1953 as a contributor to JUBILEE magazine he won numerous awards for his photo journalistic work among gypsies and other minorities.
He went on to contribute to such magazines as TIME, LIFE, LOOK, The Saturday Evening Post, Ladie's Home Journal, Paris Match, Epoca, Stern, and many others, and he was a staff photographer at Collier's Magazine at the time that journal folded.
In 1956, through his work, he befriended Robert F. Kennedy who had been appointed majority counsel to the McClellan Committee. In 1958 Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, who admired his work, asked him to photograph his "other son, Jack."
That assignment led to his becoming the Official Campaign Photographer of John F. Kennedy's quest for the presidency and, when elected, the personal photographer of President Kennedy.
His work for the campaign, the Kennedy White House, and the Kennedy family has resulted in six books, numerous exhibitions from the USA to Moscow, several prime time television shows, and some 150 major magazine pieces and covers. Reviewers have credited Lowe's "natural, warm, and intimate images of the president and his family and the workings of the presidency with keeping alive the Kennedy flame for generations yet to come." This photo collection came to be known as “The Camelot Collection”.
The Camelot Collection came from negatives that were destroyed when the World Trade Center was attacked. There were 44,000 negatives destroyed at that time, leaving Lowe with no known negatives. Lowe was in the process of printing 75 of each of these photographs when he died in 2001. He only reached 40 per photograph before his death in May of 2001. A few months later the World Trade Center was attacked, so the collection was never completed.


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    • Current lot doesn't have any damage.
  • History & Provenance
    • Provenance:
      As a result of his death, Jacques left to friend who was helping fund photography projects. Work was purchased from this friend.

      Exhibition:
      1984 Musée de L'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland

      1990 Month of Photography, Paris, France
      Centre Photographique Ville de Paris, Pompidou Center

      1991 The Hall of Journalism, Moscow, Soviet Union

      1994 Museum of Modern Art, New York, Group Show

      1995 Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., Group Show

      1996 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, A Tribute opened at Union Station, Washington, D.C. in September 1996. All proceeds were to benefit the Leukemia Society of America. The exhibit has since traveled to 29 cities including Chicago, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Boston, Denver, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, and Palm Beach. The exhibit has risen close to three million dollars to aid non-hodgkins lyphoma research. The exhibit will be permanently installed at the Sixth Floor Museum, Dallas, Texas on President's Day 2000.

      1996 American Festival, City Hall, Lille, France

      1997 Flemish Museum, Brussels and Antwerp, Belgium

      1998 UNESCO Paris, An American Dream, UNESCO headquarters.

      1998 Newseum, Washington, D.C. In connection with the photographer's Crystal Eagle Impact on Photo Journalism Award, a Lifetime Achievement Award given by the University of Missouri School of Journalism and Kodak.

      2000 An American Dream, Athens, Greece
      An American Dream, London, England
      An American Dream, Berlin, Germany



      Publications:
      'Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis,The Making of a First Lady'
      'Camelot. The Kennedy Years'
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      Shipping Weight: 10 lbs
      Framing: Yes
      Item Location: South Carolina, USA
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    Sotheby's New York:
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    gelatin silver print
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    ed.5/8

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    Sotheby's New York:
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  • Jacques Lowe
    Airport, Portland, Oregon, 1959
    gelatin silver print
    11.5 in. x 17.0 in. / 29.3 cm. x 43.2 cm. Signed, Inscribed

    Estimate: US$700 - 900 Sold for US$19,200


    Sotheby's New York:
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    Property from Kennedy Family Homes

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Jacques Lowe
John and Jacqueline Kennedy in a diner, Oregon , 1959
Sold for US$27,600
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Jacques Lowe
John F. Kennedy, Oval Office , 1962
Sold for US$16,800
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
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Airport, Portland, Oregon , 1959
Sold for US$19,200
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