Nov
22
9:30 PM
Photographing Camelot: The Kennedys through Stanley Tretick's lens
Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy campaigns in Los Angeles on Sep. 9, 1960. Kitty Kelley writes in her book, “Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the Kennedys,” that this "hands shot" was one of photojournalist Stanley Tretick's favorite pictures of the president.
© Estate of Stanley Tretick LLC. From “Capturing Camelot” by Kitty Kelley, Thomas Dunne Books.
President John F. Kennedy speaks in Dallas before roughly 13,000 people on Sep. 13, 1960.
© Estate of Stanley Tretick LLC. From “Capturing Camelot” by Kitty Kelley, Thomas Dunne Books.
First lady Jacqueline Kennedy claps for the Royal Mounted Police in Ottawa on May 17, 1961. This trip to Canada was her first foreign trip with the president.
© Estate of Stanley Tretick LLC. From “Capturing Camelot” by Kitty Kelley, Thomas Dunne Books.
President John F. Kennedy and Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev meet in Vienna for a summit conference on June 3, 1961, nearly seven weeks after Kennedy's failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Communist-controlled Cuba.
© Estate of Stanley Tretick LLC. From “Capturing Camelot” by Kitty Kelley, Thomas Dunne Books.
John F. Kennedy Jr., age 2 years and 10 months, watches his father's Marine One helicopter land on Oct. 12, 1963.
© Estate of Stanley Tretick LLC. From “Capturing Camelot” by Kitty Kelley, Thomas Dunne Books.
Photojournalist Stanley Tretick (1921-1999) became friends with John F. Kennedy while he covered Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign. During the next three years, Tretick was present at Kennedy's official functions and state visits, and also witnessed intimate Kennedy family moments featuring Kennedy, his wife Jacqueline, and their two young children, Caroline and John Jr. Best-selling biographer Kitty Kelley, who wrote about the Kennedys and was a friend of Tretick, compiled the photographer’s work into a book, "Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick's Iconic Images of the Kennedys," which was published in 2012.
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