Facebook-f Instagram
Blind Magazine : photography at first sight

Jacques Lowe, the Eye Behind the Kennedy Myth

Capturing Kennedy, by director Steele Burrow, revives the work of Jacques Lowe, a Holocaust survivor who became JFK’s personal photographer.

It is a JFK in full political ascent — sun-kissed, the nape of his neck bathed in light — that the film preserves for eternity, shot at Hyannis Port, the Kennedy family's historic stronghold on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in July 1958. Another portrait,...

Picture of Guénola Pellen

Guénola Pellen

Guénola Pellen is a journalist specializing in culture and the United States, where she edited the magazine France-Amérique for 15 years. She divides her time between Paris and New York.

Don’t miss the latest photographic news, subscribe to Blind’s newsletter.

You’re getting blind.
Don’t miss the best of visual arts. Subscribe for $8 per month or $96 $80 per year.

SEE OFFERS

Already subscribed? Log in