John F. Kennedy, Berlin Tempelhof 1963 Vintage silver print 24,1 x 29,7 cm (9.5 x 11.7 in)
Signed and extensively annotated by the photographer in pencil on the reverse, his copyright stamp on the reverse - Funeral John F. Kennedy, 1963 Gelatin silver print, printed later 29.8 x 23.2 cm (11.7 x 9.1 in) Signed, extensively annotated and numbered by the photographer in pencil on the reverse, his copyright stamp on the reverse, edition no. 5/10
PROVENANCE directly from the photographer
LITERATURE Guido Mangold, Fotografien 1958 bis heute, Munich 2010, p. 69 and 71.

John F. Kennedy’s legendary visit to Berlin in June of 1963 and his funeral at the National Cemetery in Arlington in November of the same year: two historically important events which Guido Mangold recorded close up and with great sensitivity. His two photo features are among the most important documents of these historic moments, and they brought the student of Otto Steinert his international breakthrough as a press photographer. Especially the two present photographs, one of the last eye contact between the US President and the German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer as they said farewell at the Berlin airport Tegel, the other a profile image of a mourning Jackie next to Robert and Rose Kennedy at the funeral of JFK after he had been shot, became icons.
Both pictures, taken with a Leica M2 and first published by the magazine Quick, reflect Mangold’s unswerving commitment and his professionalism. In Berlin, he was one of the few reporters allowed to join two official White House photographers and a camera team in taking pictures from the car directly in front of the presidential car. After the funeral in Arlington, his painstaking planning allowed him to outsmart the competition and be the first to return to Germany with the pictures. Even before the mourning party had broken up, Mangold had left the area and was on his way to catch the last plane that evening. Thus, he enabled Quick to publish the pictures only a day after the funeral, beating the all-powerful Stern by a margin of 200,000 copies sold.