A Great Crowd Had Gathered: JFK in the 1960s

Friday, November 1, 2013–Sunday, March 30, 2014

Exhibition Catalogue

Lee Friedlander, Monsey, New York, 1963. Gelatin silver print. Yale University Art Gallery, Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund. Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

This exhibition examines John F. Kennedy by way of his public—those who elected him to the presidency, provided crucial support during his term in office, and were profoundly affected by his assassination in 1963. Featuring work made during the sixties by artists including Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand, as well as key wire photographs from the press, the photographs in this exhibition not only trace the rise of irony, self-reference, and ambiguity in photography but also bear witness to the saturation of Kennedy’s likeness in the public sphere throughout the decade.

Yale University Art Gallery Exhibition Website

Friedlander, Lee.  JFK: A Photographic Memoir.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.

Koetzle, Hans-Michael, ed.  Kennedy in Berlin, 50th Anniversary: The German Trip in 1963 / photographs by Ulrich Mack.  Munich: Hirmer, 2013.

Meslay, Olivier.  Hotel Texas: An Art Exhibition for the President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy.  Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art; Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, 2013.

Owen, Dean R.  November 22, 1963: Reflections on the Life, Assassination, and Legacy of John F. Kennedy.  New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2013.