The Camelot years

Photographer Jacques Lowe was commissioned by John F Kennedy to document his family for five years. Just 28 years old when he started in 1958, Lowe chronicled Kennedy’s Senate re-election campaign, his first years as US President and the family’s frequent breaks from the spotlight. His iconic images represented an era that came to be known as Camelot. Lowe was devastated when the 9/11 terror attack in New York destroyed 40,000 negatives of the Kennedy family that had been stored for safe-keeping in a fireproof vault at the World Trade Center. These informal pictures, from the early Sixties, show intimate behind-the-scenes moments.