Harry Benson: a life in pictures

0 Comments | AFP, March, 2008

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — In a photojournalism career spanning more than half a century, Harry Benson has covered it all.

He has photographed every US president since Eisenhower, covered wars in Afghanistan and the Middle East and captured intimate, unforgettable portraits of a legion of movie stars and icons of the 20th century.

He was just yards away when Robert Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in 1968. He was on hand to watch as the Berlin Wall went up, and he was there again when it came tumbling down.

But it was the 1964 photo of a pillow fight involving four young musicians from Liverpool that changed Benson's life forever.

The Scottish photographer's iconic image of The Beatles scrapping playfully in their Paris hotel room -- moments...

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