For fifty years, Harry Benson has produced astonishing photographs of remarkable people often at exceptional times: Winston Churchill, Frank Sinatra, the Beatles, Truman Capote, Muhammad Ali, and every US President since Eisenhower.
This major retrospective draws together over one hundred of Benson’s most iconic images, together with work that is rarely seen and little known. The exhibition is the first exhibition of Harry Benson’s work in the UK and will be the only UK showing.
Highlights of the show include the legendary shot of the Beatles arriving at JFK airport in 1964, taken on their first trip to the US; the Reagans dancing at the White House; a portrait of Michael Jackson framed by two child mannequins at his bedroom door and a moving portrait of Peg Ogonowski, the wife of the captain of American Airlines flight 11, the first plane to strike the Twin Towers.
