HARRY BENSON PHOTOGRAPHY. HARRY BENSON PHOTOGRAPHY. HARRY BENSON PHOTOGRAPHY. My life through the lens: Photographer Harry Benson to exhibit 50 years of snapping celebrities. Pillow fights with The Beatles, marching with Martin Luther King Jr, and a naked Kate Moss… photographer Harry Benson has seen and snapped them all. In his 50-year career, he has captured every American president on film since Dwight D Eisenhower, framed the likes of Michael Jackson and Al Pacino in his lens and was there when the Berlin Wall was built – and knocked down. Now he is organising the first major exhibition of his work in Britain and will even sell some of the pictures that capture iconic moments in recent history.
Mr Benson, who was made a CBE in 2009 in recognition of his work, first shot to fame in 1964 when he was asked to chronicle the rise of Beatlemania. His shot of the Fab Four having a pillow fight in a Paris hotel room is one of the world’s most-recognised images of the pop group. Speaking about shooting that iconic image, Mr Benson said: ‘I had heard The Beatles talking about a pillow fight they had had a few nights before, so I suggested it. HARRY BENSON PHOTOGRAPHY.