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Jacoby, Max
(1919-2009)Crowds listening to John F. Kennedy speaking in front of Rathaus Schöneberg

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 6.6.2026

Jubelnde Menschen beim Berlin-Besuch des US-Präsidenten John F. Kennedy. 1963. Gelatin silver print, printed later. 19,5 x 30 cm. Photographer's stamp and annotated in pencil on the verso.

In 1937, Jewish photographer Max Jacoby fled Germany for Argentina, where he started working as a camera assistant to Georges Friedmann. Alongside other émigré photographers, he co-founded the group “La Carpeta de los Diez.” Returning to Berlin in 1957, he worked as a freelance photographer, portraying workers, artists, beggars, and politicians, and documenting political events and everyday life in the divided city. His photographs of John F. Kennedy’s 1963 visit to Berlin rank among the most poignant images of the occasion; Jacoby himself titled this image “The People’s Heart.”

Literatur: Angelika Gause, ed. Der Fotograf Max Jacoby : Bilder der 60er und 70er Jahre, Koblenz: Görres, 2003.