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Harry Benson

Harry Benson
  • Name: Harry Benson
  • Birthday: 1929-12-02
  • Place of birth: Glasgow, Scotland
  • Popularity: 0.008
Biography: Born in Glasgow and raised in Troon, Scotland, arrived in America with the Beatles in 1964. His pictures have appeared in Life, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker. He took over a hundred cover shots for People. Harry 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; 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.

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Title Release date
Beatles '64   as  Self 2024-11-28
Harry Benson: Shoot First   as  Self 2016-11-04
America in Pictures - The Story of Life Magazine   as  Self 2011-12-02
Bobby Fischer Against the World   as  self 2011-06-06
Smash His Camera   as  Self - Photojournalist 2010-07-30