| As a student in Paris and a photographer at the Washington Times-Herald, the future First Lady worked behind the lens to bring her own ideas into focus.  Photograph from Bettmann / Getty The newspaper editor who gave young Jacqueline Bouvier a job as a roving photographer and reporter in Washington, in 1951, would later recall her dismissively. “I’d seen her type,” he said. “Little society girls with dreams of writing the great American novel, who drop it the minute they find the great American husband.” But, as Thomas Mallon explores in a new essay, the twenty months that the soon-to-be Jackie Kennedy spent helming a column titled “Inquiring Camera Girl,” in which she photographed and interviewed individuals from all walks of life in the capital, was more than just a lark. The column led to bigger stories—on Dwight Eisenhower’s Inauguration, on Queen Elizabeth’s coronation—and reveals much about how the future First Lady formed her aesthetic sensibilities and ideas about people, before she herself became “the world’s most photographed woman.” | 
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