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A Jackie Kennedy selfie!

Doug Kerr

Doug Kerr

Well-known member
Here is a "selfie" (mirror mode) by Jackie Kennedy (with JFK and his sister Ethel):

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Provided by Michael Beschloss via Twitter on Huffington Post​

Can anyone identify the camera? Looks like a TLR but I don't understand what seems to be the grip.

I think this is the most adorable picture of Jackie I have ever seen.

This was described as being "60 years ago" (which would be 1954).

Best regards,

Doug
 
Jerome Marot

Jerome Marot

Well-known member
This version of the same picture is slightly clearer:

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(from this site, also here, where they date the picture to 1954)

Handles were used on TLR at the time, here an example:

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Or she could be holding the strap:

le-23a.jpg
 
Doug Kerr

Doug Kerr

Well-known member
Hi, Jerome,

Jerome Marot said:
This version of the same picture is slightly clearer:

0a336dc0a953e60878ff3fbdd647908cc16788.jpg

(from this site, also here, where they date the picture to 1954)
Click to expand...
Thanks for those links to better versions of the image.

Handles were used on TLR at the time, here an example:

8478709_1_l.jpg

Or she could be holding the strap:

le-23a.jpg
Click to expand...

Yes, that might well be. What baffled me is the black object apparently in Jackie's right hand (on our right in the photo).

Thanks.

Best regards,

Doug
 
Doug Kerr

Doug Kerr

Well-known member
Hi, Jerome,

This Avedon mirror selfie:

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Richard Avedon and Sophia Loren, New York, 1966​

from the second site you cited shows a very similar situation. Jackie's camera may well have had the same type of handgrip on its right side.

Best regards,

Doug
 
C

Chris Heilman

New member
I think the dark object is mostly just shadow caused by her hand. If you look with enough imagination, you can see a bit of the focus knob right under her index finger.
 
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