page_title: James Atherton (photographer)
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: James Atherton (photographer) / Career
caption_attribution_description: Original Caption: President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Bid Farewell to Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace of Monaco We are looking for your help in identifying unknown people in our White House Photographs collection. If you have any information about this photograph, please post a comment, including any relevant sources, for the catalogers at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. Thank you! Local Identifier: JFKWHP-AR6607-C Created By: Department of the Interior. National Park Service (II). Region VI, National Capital Region. From: Abbie Rowe White House Photographs, 12/06/1960 - 03/11/1964 Contact: John F. Kennedy Library (LP-JFK), Columbia Point Boston, MA 02125-3398 Phone: 617-514-1600 Fax: 617-514-1652 Email: kennedy.library@nara.gov Production Dates: 5/24/1961 Scope and Content Note: In this photograph President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy bid farewell to Prince Ranier III and Princess Grace of Monaco (actress Grace Kelly) following a luncheon in their honor. United Press International (UPI) reporter, Merriman "Smitty" Smith, stands behind and left of Mrs. Kennedy; UPI photographer, James K. W. Atherton, is visible on far right edge of image. All others are unidentified. West Wing Entrance, White House, Washington, D.C. Persistent URL: JFK Library URL: www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHP-AR6607-C.... Access Restrictions: Unrestricted Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
context_page_description: James Kenneth Ward Atherton, was a veteran news photographer who caught iconic moments through a lens in Washington D.C. for over forty years.
context_section_description: After serving in the military, Atherton was a staffer for the wires at United Press International for a period of twenty years. He covered every U.S. president from Harry S. Truman to Richard Nixon, as well as the major events of the day, such as the McCarthy hearings, the 1963 March on Washington and the State funeral of John F. Kennedy. Very few contemporary world leaders from this period of history escaped his lens.
  In 1970 he became a staff photographer and picture editor at The Washington Post. Following his award-winning photo coverage of the Watergate hearings, he continued to cover Capitol Hill throughout the Iran–Contra affair hearings.
  The Boston Globe described how his colleagues referred to him as: 
  Bad Light Atherton
   from his practice of sacrificing what other photographers considered the best (or easiest) lighting conditions for a more arresting image.
caption: President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy bid farewell to Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace of Monaco. UPI photographer James K. W. Atherton can seen on the right edge
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