Jacques Lowe, photographer of the Kennedys, dies at 71.
Mr. Lowe came to New York from Cologne, Germany in 1949. Supporting himself with odd jobs, he studied journalism and design, and in 1951 he became an assistant to the photographer Arnold Newman. Mr. Lowe subsequently opened his own studio, his photographs appearing in publications like Life, Look, Time, Newsweek, Paris Match and Stern.
Lowe was a 26-year-old freelance journalist in 1956 when he was assigned by three magazines within the same week to photograph Chief Counsel Robert Kennedy. They became friends and Lowe soon was invited to spend weekends at Kennedy's Hickory Hill home in Virginia. As John F. Kennedy's campaign photographer and then his personal photographer after he became president, Mr. Lowe produced many memorable images.
Lowe passed away from cancer at the age of 71 in his home in Manhattan.
