Mark Shaw lived from 1922-1969. As a photographer he is perhaps best known for his images of Jacqueline and John F. Kennedy and their family which he originally shot as their family photographer. After JFK's death a selection of photographs was published as a book "The John F. Kennedy's - A family album,". This book sold over 200,000 copies when it first came out, very impressive even today. In 2000 Rizzoli published an updated version of "The John F. Kennedy's - A family album," featuring many never before seen color and black and white photographs.

A leading fashion photographer, Mark Shaw worked for Harper's Bazaar, Mademoiselle, and a host of other fashion magazines. He started working for Life magazine in 1952 and in 16 years shot 27 covers and almost 100 stories. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s Mark Shaw shot the European fashion collections for Life, and was one of the first photographers to shoot fashion on the runways and "backstage" at the couture shows.

Among the many famous people Mark Shaw photographed were Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Brigitte Bardot, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Melina Mercouri, Danny Kaye, Cary Grant, Pope Paul VI, Yves St. Laurent and Chanel.

In his later years Mark Shaw began filming commercials for television. He was the winner of many awards from the American TV commercial Festival for his work in commercials and from the Art Director's club for his earlier still work. Mark Shaw's Vanity Fair Lingerie and Chase Manhattan Bank's "nest egg" campaign are print advertising classics.

In 1998 Mark Shaw's only child, David Shaw, took on, with his wife Juliet Cuming, the job of creating the Mark Shaw Photographic Archive. In storage for almost 30 years, Mark Shaw's work is finally being unearthed, archived and made available.

If you would like to find out more about Mark Shaw and his work please call David Shaw or Juliet Cuming at the Mark Shaw Photographic Archive.