Harry Benson at DPPA Tues. nite

[bondarnes]

Harry Benson will be the speaker at the August DPPA meeting Tuesday night. This man was there when history was being made. I know that it will be an awesome program. For more info here is the DPPA website http://www.dallasppa.com/

50 Years in Pictures
Harry Benson

Please join us for this very exciting presenter, Harry Benson, on Tues, August 14th.

ON THE ROAD WITH HARRY BENSON

By David Friend

He was just steps from Bobby Kennedy the night the senator was shot, steps from Coretta Scott King at her husband's funeral, steps from Richard Nixon the day the president resigned in disgrace. He was on hand for the Freedom March through Mississippi, the Watts riots, the I.R.A. hunger strikes, the fall of Czechoslovakia and Romania and the Berlin Wall. He was invited by Jackie Kennedy to shoot her daughter Caroline's wedding (to Edwin Schlossberg), invited into Michael Jackson's bedroom (to take baby pictures of Jackson's son Prince), invited into Elizabeth Taylor's hospital suite (to photograph the star, bald as a tulip bulb, after brain surgery).

Flip through the new book Harry Benson: Fifty Years in Pictures (Abrams) and one gets the eerie impression that for half a century he has been nothing less than photojournalism's Zelig--the man who happens to materialize, with a camera, whenever history envelops the high and mighty. He covered every president since Eisenhower, the first US casualty in Bosnia, firefights in Kosovo, the pall of smoke above the Twin Towers' wreckage on September 11, 2001. Before there was a 24-hour news cycle, before there was a CNN or a FOX, there was The Fox, a lone lensman from Scotland with a hungry eye trained upon the world's public prey.

"[I remember Harry] when the Beatles first came to this country [in 1964]," recalls photographer Bill Eppridge, in a passage from John Loengard's What They Saw, an exhaustive oral history of the exploits of LIFE magazine's staff photographers. "I [was in the press pool] at J.F.K. [airport, and] introduced myself to the photographer next to me. He was Eddie Adams from the Associated Press. I said, 'If you had your choice, what position would you like to have?' We both agreed we would want to be right behind the Beatles as they came out of the plane, looking down, across them, over this whole huge mob.

[taygull]

You guys missed out on seeing a legend if you were not there.

Don, it was good seeing you again. I sat to your right during the dinner.

[Jake]

I messed it, something came up at the last minute.......

Side note: I hear the Texas PPA has a new president now! The TPPA magazine had him and his hot wife on the cover

[fran reisner]

It was a great program. What an interesting man!

Gonna hijack here just long enough to say congrats to two fine men!

Congrats to Don Barnes for his presidency with TPPA and to Chris Fritchie for his print award on Tuesday night!

[bondarnes]

Thanks Jake and Fran. That was truly a great program.

[Cyndi B]

I really wanted to go to this, but had already promised to take the kids to grandma and grandpa's. Wah!

[taygull]

Originally Posted by fran reisner

It was a great program. What an interesting man!

Gonna hijack here just long enough to say congrats to two fine men!

Congrats to Don Barnes for his presidency with TPPA and to Chris Fritchie for his print award on Tuesday night!

Thanks Fran! You've been a big help.

Sorry for the late reply I've been away from the board for awhile.