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.