A pivotal aspect of the exhibition will be the image of America, during the upheavals and traumas of the 1960s - the civil rights movement, rioting in the inner cities, the slaying of the Kennedys and of Martin Luther King - that he sent back to newspapers in Britain. This will include images of British personalities resident and visiting America, grappling with an unfamiliar culture, typified by the Archbishop of Canterbury giving a talk in Las Vegas and John Lennon confronting the spectacular backfiring of his quip that the Beatles were ‘more popular than Jesus’.
Another major theme will be the defining moments in recent political history, as seen from Benson’s camera: the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall; terrorism in Kuwait and Israel and conflicts in Afghanistan.
