Harry Benson, Jacqueline Kennedy and Lee Radziwill, London 1962, Archival Photograph

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  Harry Benson Jacqueline Kennedy and Lee Radziwill, London 1962 Fiber-based archival photograph, signed, titled and numbered by Harry Benson from an edition of 35 Paper size 17" x 22" Image size 15.5" x 17.5" Scottish born photojournalist Harry Benson arrived in America with the Beatles in 1964. He has photographed every U.S. president from Eisenhower to Barack H. Obama; was just feet away from Bobby Kennedy the night he was assassinated; in the room with Richard Nixon when he resigned; and on the Meredith march with Martin Luther King, Jr., next to Coretta Scott King at her husband?s funeral; went 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. In 2013 Benson received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from The University of St. Andrews, Scotland. In 2009, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and received his honor at Buckingham Palace in March. Benson has also received an Honorary Fellowship in the Royal Photographic Society and was honored with a Doctor of Letters from the Glasgow School of Art and Glasgow University in 2007. Benson was twice named NPPA Magazine Photographer of the Year, and 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 fourteen books of his photographs have been published. His photographs are in the permanent collection of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, both museums hosted his exhibition, Harry Benson: Being There (2006-7). From June to September, 2008, a major retrospective exhibition of Benson?s photographs was at Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow. Harry was under contract to LIFE Magazine from 1970 to 2000. His photographs appear in major magazines including Vanity Fair, Town & Country, Architectural Digest, Time, Newsweek, Vice, Paris Match, and The London Sunday Times Magazine.

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  Height: 22.00

  Width: 17.00
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