Portraitist Fabian Bachrach photographed Kennedy

Published 4:00 am Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Fabian Bachrach, a prominent photographer best known for his portrait of a young senator named John Fitzgerald Kennedy, an image that became the official presidential photo after Kennedy’s election and a ubiquitous memorial after his assassination, died Friday in Newton, Mass. He was 92.

The cause was pneumonia, his son Louis said.

Believed to be the oldest continuously operating photo studio in the world, Bachrach Photography for more than 140 years has photographed luminaries in the arts, sports, business and politics, including nearly every U.S. president from Abraham Lincoln on.

Over the years, Fabian Bachrach photographed the famous, among them Richard Nixon, Indira Gandhi, Joe DiMaggio, Jacques Cousteau, and Robert Frost.