The Pillow Fight, 1964
Photography : archival pigment print · 58.4 x 58.4 x 0.3 cm 23 x 23 x 0.1 inch
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Photography : numbered and limited to 35 copies
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58.4 x 58.4 x 0.3 cm 23 x 23 x 0.1 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Limited Edition 5/35
Hand Signed by Harry Benson 1964, printed 2012
Harry Benson's self-described “one photograph" is Beatles' Pillow Fight from 1964 at the Hotel George V in Paris. In this instance, Benson was not only privileged to be working with The Beatles, but lucky enough to be with the legendary band when they received the news that their song “I Want to Hold Your Hand" went to number one on the charts in the United States. Before he knew it, Benson was artfully photographing a pillow fight. He was snapping away at their celebratory play fighting, catching the signature shot of Paul McCartney swinging a pillow at John Lennon while Ringo Starr jumps on top of George Harrison.
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Scottish, b. 1929, based in Manhattan, New York, NY, United States
Eminent photojournalist Harry Benson has been capturing historic world events and figures over the course of his celebrated career, building up a body of color and black-and-white photographs that chronicles the tumultuous decades from the 1950s to now. His career skyrocketed in 1964 when he documented the Beatles on their first American tour and took the now-iconic photograph of the foursome having a pillow fight in bed.
On assignment for such publications as the Daily Express and LIFE Magazine, he has marched with Martin Luther King, Jr., photographed every U.S. president since Dwight Eisenhower, innumerable world leaders, artists, and celebrities, and been at the center of such watershed events as the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall and the resignation of Richard Nixon. “Wherever I am,” Benson claims, “the one thing I must do—I must tell the truth.”
Eminent photojournalist Harry Benson has been capturing historic world events and figures over the course of his celebrated career, building up a body of color and black-and-white photographs that chronicles the tumultuous decades from the 1950s to now. His career skyrocketed in 1964 when he documented the Beatles on their first American tour and took the now-iconic photograph of the foursome having a pillow fight in bed.
On assignment for such publications as the Daily Express and LIFE Magazine, he has marched with Martin Luther King, Jr., photographed every U.S. president since Dwight Eisenhower, innumerable world leaders, artists, and celebrities, and been at the center of such watershed events as the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall and the resignation of Richard Nixon. “Wherever I am,” Benson claims, “the one thing I must do—I must tell the truth.”
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