Harry Benson Scottish, b. 1929
Born near Glasgow, Scotland in 1929, where he lives.
Benson has spent many decades capturing iconic images of world leaders, American presidents from Eisenhower to Barack Obama, celebrities like The Beatles, and crucial historical moments. Benson truly launched his career while traveling on assignment with the Beatles to cover their first tour in America in 1964.
He began his career at the Hamilton Advertiser before moving to Fleet Street where he worked for London’s Daily Sketch and the Daily Express. In America he has worked for Life Magazine, People Magazine, Vanity Fair, and Architectural Digest.
Benson received the LUCIE Award for Lifetime Achievement in Photography, the AMERICAN PHOTO Magazine Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Scottish Press Photographers Association, and he has received the Leica Medal of Excellence twice.
Benson has had more than forty one-man exhibitions of his photographs in the United States and Europe including retrospectives of his work at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh; the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; and at Kelvingrove Museum of Art, Glasgow. His work remains in the permanent collections of each of these museums and other institutions.
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