The Man Who Captured - Camelot

A NEW DOCUMENTARY ABOUT KENNEDY PHOTOGRAPHER JACQUES LOWE REVEALS WHY HIS ‘FLY ON THE WALL’ STYLE MADE HIM A JFK FAVORITE

- LIZ MCNEIL

When Jacques Lowe arrived at the Kennedy family’s Hyannis Port compound in 1958 for his first photo shoot with John F. Kennedy, the young senator from Massachusetts “was furious,” Lowe later recalled. His father, Joseph Kennedy Sr., who had orchestrated the shoot, hadn’t consulted him. “I was convinced it was a failure,” said Lowe, who, by the end of the day, had snapped JFK and his wife, Jackie, holding their baby daughter Caroline, who was chewing on her mother’s pearls. “It started off so bad,” said Lowe, “and the result was so good.”