August Meeting: Harry Benson
Monday August 13th at 7:00pm
at Accurate Image, 2112 Washington Avenue, Waco

Scottish born photojournalist Harry Benson arrived in America with the Beatles in 1964 and knew he would stay. Harry has photographed every U.S. president from Eisenhower to George W. Bush; was just feet away from Bobby Kennedy the night he was assassinated; in the room with Richard Nixon when he resigned; on the Meredith march with Martin Luther King, Jr., next to Coretta Scott King at her husband’s funeral; on maneuvers with the IRA; was there when the Berlin Wall went up and when it came down; and covered the aftermath of Katrina in New Orleans.

Twice named NPPA Magazine Photographer of the Year, Harry received the 2005 LUCIE Award for Lifetime Achievement in Portrait Photography; the 2005 AMERICAN PHOTO Magazine Award for Achievement in Photography; the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Scottish Press Photographers Association; and has twice received the Leica Medal of Excellence. He has had 40 gallery solo exhibitions and has had eleven books of his photographs published with two new books, Harry Benson’s Glasgow (B&W Publishing) and The Tivoli Gardens (Abrams) to be published in 2007.

His photographs are in the permanent collection of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, which will host his Harry Benson: Being There exhibition from April 27th to September 2007. The exhibit was at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh from August to December 2006. A major retrospective exhibition of Harry’s photographs will open at Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow, Scotland, in the summer of 2008.

Harry was under contract to LIFE Magazine from 1970 to 2000 and is presently under contract to Vanity Fair Magazine, and he photographs for Architectural Digest, Newsweek and other major magazines.

Harry lives in New York with his wife, Gigi, who works with him on his book projects. Their two daughters live and work in Los Angeles.

Harry Benson is a Canon Explorer of Light. Canon USA is underwriting part of this presentation. For more information about Harry Benson, visit http://www.harrybenson.com

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