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Features the upheavals and traumas of 1960s' America

Includes an interview with the photographer

Includes pictures of the assasination of Robert Kennedy in 1968; Martin Luther King's funeral; Mia Farrow and Frank Sinatra

Harry Benson has enjoyed an extraordinary and unprecedented career as a photojournalist, gaining access to some of the key figures of the last fifty years often at decisive moments of history. His work, plotted across the pages of the most influential and culturally significant magazines and newspapers of the twentieth century, charts a fascinating course mapping the worlds of politics and culture, sport and fashion, and the stellar successes and crashing failures of celebrity. He developed a forensic eye for creating memorable pictures of defining personalities and events of the moment. Born in Glasgow, he travelled with the Beatles on their first visit to America and he has lived there ever since.

This book, which accompanies the summer show at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, illustrates many of his most iconic images, placing them within the context of the shifting fashions and fortunes of an editorial industry of which he has always been a champion.

Relié: 72 pages

Editeur : National Galleries of Scotland (23 novembre 2006)

Langue : Français