4180 - Jacoby, Max

Jacoby, Max President John F. Kennedy signing the Golden Book of the City of Berlin. 1963. Vintage gelatin silver print on Agfa paper. 23.8 x 29.9 cm. 2 photographer's/copyright stamps, annotated and dated in pencil on the reverse. In 1937, the Jewish photographer Max Jacoby fled his native Koblenz for Argentina, where he began working as a camera assistant to photographer Georges Friedmann and later co-founded the photographic collective La Carpeta de los Diez with fellow émigré photographers. Returning to Berlin in 1957, he established himself as a freelance photographer, documenting political events, everyday life, and a wide range of personalities in the divided city. His photographs of John F. Kennedy’s historic visit to West Berlin in June 1963 capture the atmosphere of public enthusiasm surrounding the American president’s appearance, providing a vivid record of a defining moment in the city’s Cold War history. – Corners bumped, small crease in the upper right corner and a few light creases in the lower left corner, slight buckling along the edges; otherwise in good condition. Lit.: GDKE, Landesmuseum Koblenz, ed. Max Jacoby: Life and Work of a Jewish Photographer. Cologne: Wienand, 2020, ill. p. 61 (images from the same series).