AFTER being destroyed in the wreckage of the World Trade Center, it was thought that many of Jacques Lowe's authorised personal photographs of the Kennedys had been lost forever.

Of Lowe's 40,000 Kennedy photographs, only a few hundred have ever been seen -- but all of his negatives, which were housed in a vault in the WTC, were destroyed on September 11, 2001.

Now, for the first time, those same intimate and unseen photographs are finally being released in a timely collection to coincide with the former US President's death 40 years ago this November. For this definitive book, fine reproductions have been created from existing prints and contact sheets -- in some cases of images he never even printed. Authorized by the Lowe estate, Remembering Jack (£30, Andrew Deutsch £30) features more than 600 pictures, half of which are previously unpublished

Taken during his tenure as JFK's personal photographer, Jacques Lowe's photographs have become the iconic imagery of a time that remains vividly etched in the national psyche. Upon Lowe's death, commentators credited his pictures with creating the myth of Camelot.

The unseen images of JFK

(Published by Andrew Deutsch at £30).