Harry Benson will receive today the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Center of Photography in New York. In this portfolio, you can find a selection of Harry Benson’s most iconic images shot in the 1950s. In his early 20’s in his native Scotland Harry began as a wedding photographer, later working for the weekly Hamilton Advertiser. He managed to become a freelance photographer covering Scotland for the Daily Sketch and in 1958 got an exclusive interview with convicted mass murderer Peter Manuel He won second place Photographer of the Year in the Encyclopedia Britannia Awards that year and moved to London. Shortly thereafter he began photographing for The Daily Express owned by Lord Beaverbrook at the time.
“Don’t tell Cartier-Bresson, or Penn, or Avedon, or Scavullo, or the sweet departed spirit of Sir Cecil Beaton, but you are my favorite photographer!” – Truman Capote
