“Jack was a joy to work with. He was very low key and gave his subjects freedom to evolve according to the spirit of the moment, which gives his work a refreshing spontaneity.” Gloria Vanderbilt
"His street portraits show a visually rich world of nineteenth-century architecture and modern glass and steel skyscrapers, an intimate place where workmen, shop girls, nuns, businessmen, sailors, and white-gloved ladies--black, white, Creole--mingled on the sidewalks and neutral ground as they moved in and out of the French Quarter, on one side of Canal Street, and the Central Business District, on the other." Dr. Sarah Wilkerson-Freeman