A GALLERY FOR FINE PHOTOGRAPHY 322 Royal Street New Orleans, LA 70117 Telephone 504-568-1313 Fax 504-568-1322 www.agallery.com * * * * * October 15, 1998 A Gallery for Fine Photography presents an exhibition of original photographs by JACQUES LOWE: THE KENNEDY YEARS- JFK, RFK, and JACKIE REMEMBERED, 1956-1968 December 3, 1998-December 31, 1998 RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST Thursday, December 3, 1998 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. Unlike any other chronicler of the Kennedy years, Jacques Lowe presents us with a uniquely intimate and historic testimony to the life of John F. Kennedy. Jacques Lowe, a successful photojournalist, was assigned to photograph Robert Kennedy in 1956. His photographs of Robert Kennedy and his family so impressed the family patriarch, Joseph Kennedy, that he asked him to photograph his other son, U. S. Senator John F. Kennedy. From this initial assignment, Jacques Lowe soon became friend and confidant to the Kennedy family, then John F. Kennedy's official campaign photographer and eventually personal photographer to the young President. The photographs in this exhibition chronicle John F. Kennedy's rise to the Presidency, his challenging, but exciting years in the White House and his personal joys and trials. No other photographer was more closely entwined with the Kennedy family. This exhibition includes Jacques Lowe's early photographs of Haiti, London, gypsies, and recently- Jazz musicians. "Jacques Lowe was monumentally self-effacing. This, I believe, is why his camera caught so much human truth. There are no orchestrated photo opportunities here...Contrary to the myth, Kennedy wasted no time fabricating images. He was a relaxed man, secure and imperturbable, who gambled on himself and felt no need for hype. In Jacques Lowe, he found the photographer who gave the natural rhythms of the Kennedy White House enduring form." -Arthur Schlesinger,Jr. Books Available: JFK Remembered Jacques Lowe will also be available for interviews. Please call for an appointment. For more information, please call 568-1313.