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Jacques Lowe
Marilyn Monroe Smile
1963

About the Item

“Smile” Hand Signed by Jaques Lowe Estate Stamped in Back Comes with COA Vintage Silver Gel Print 11” x 14” Hand Signed, Unframed 20” x 24” Custom Framed as seen in the gallery Museum Grade Framing, Mounted on Acid Free Board with Matting, Black Satin Moulding and Non-Glare Plexi Marilyn was meeting secretly with JFK at his suite in the Carlyle Hotel Suite NYC with wrap around views of Central Park & the Manhattan Skyline. What do you do when, as a photographer, you are told your image archive is so precious that it’s uninsurable? The answer for Jacques Lowe, whose images helped create the legend of John F Kennedy, was to store them in JP Morgan's seemingly impregnable vault in Tower 5 of New York's World Trade Center. But then 9/11 came, and his life's work went with it. Jacques Lowe became John F Kennedy’s presidential campaign photographer in 1960. After his election victory over Richard Nixon, he became the first family’s personal photographer after turning down an official White House photographer role. It was a wise decision to decline the restrictive job on staff in favour of unprecedented access to the family both in and out of Washington. Kennedy's term in office became known as one of the most captivating periods of 20th-century US history, and Lowe was on hand to document what went on behind the scenes. Disillusioned after Kennedy's 1963 assassination and the further shootings that claimed the lives of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, the German-born Lowe returned to Europe in 1968. His Kennedy negatives meant so much to him that he bought an extra seat for them on the plane to France. And 33 years later, another aeroplane was to decide the fate of the images that had defined him as a photographer. In May of 2001, Lowe died. Only a few months later his negatives, kept in a vault at J.P Morgan Chase Bank's World TradeCenter location, were destroyed in the September 11th terrorist attacks, with the sole 10 remaining negatives out on loan during this time. The exhibition presented photographs printed and signed by Lowe himself previous to his passing, from his Estate's collection of modern fine art prints. My Kennedy Years: A Memoir by Jacques Lowe, published by Thames & Hudson, accompanied the exhibition.

Creator:
Jacques Lowe (1930-2001, American)
Creation Year:
1963
Dimensions:
Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 20 in (50.8 cm)
Medium:
Silver Gelatin,Photographic Paper
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
1960-1969
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Beverly Hills, CA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU243211581202