Manfred Linus Kreiner - Jacqueline Kennedy – Arrivée Officielle à Mexico, 1962

Title:
Jacqueline Kennedy – Official Arrival in Mexico, 1962

Key points:
Subject: Jacqueline Kennedy
Location: Mexico City International Airport, Mexico
Date: June 29, 1962
Photographer: Manfred Linus Kreiner
Print: 2 / 75
Format: 24 × 33 cm (9.45 x 13 in.)
Excellent condition

Description:
This photograph shows Jacqueline Kennedy during her official arrival in Mexico on June 29, 1962, at the start of the presidential couple’s state visit to Mexico.
Captured on the airport tarmac, the image presents Jackie Kennedy in an elegant and natural posture, amid the welcome protocol organized for the presidential visit. In the background appear the military personnel, officials and spectators who came to witness the Kennedy couple’s arrival, bearing witness to the importance of this diplomatic event.
Manfred Linus Kreiner captures here a particularly vivid and spontaneous moment: Jacqueline Kennedy turns her gaze toward the photographer’s lens, creating a direct and immediate connection with the scene. The framing, partly behind a foreground silhouette, strengthens the impression of a moment discreetly captured at the heart of the action, in the tradition of the great photojournalism of the 1960s.
This image also reflects Jackie Kennedy’s international aura, which during these official trips became one of the most admired and médiatised figures of her era.
Print made from the original negative kept in the photographer’s estate archives and authenticated by stamp on the back.
Edition numbered 2/75, first print of the edition.

Technical details:
Year (shot): 1962
Print year: 2019
Technique: Fine Art Print – Piezography Pro (14 inks)
Paper: Canson Infinity Photo Lustre Premium RC Fine Art – 310 g/m²
Dimensions: 24 × 33 cm (9.45 x 13 in.)
Edition: 75 copies
Copy no. 2 of the edition

Authentication:
Print authorized by the estate + stamp on the back
Handwritten numbering (2/75)

Condition:
Excellent condition — ready to be framed

A rare image from a corpus that long remained unpublished, captured close to the great diplomatic visits of the Kennedy era. Direct testimony of the gaze of a photographer accredited to the heart of international events of his time, this work offers an acquisition opportunity that is both historic and patrimonial.