off the record

Mr. Fielden and Mr. Benson

Photographer Harry Benson Convinces Town & Country Editor Jay Fielden He's Naturally Beautiful

“This isn’t my real work,” photojournalist Harry Benson told Off the Record, gesturing at a wall of his photographs.

He was surrounded by intimate candids of bold-face names, taken over the course of his 40-year career at magazines like Life and Vanity Fair. All together they tell a colorful history of New York society, but he’d rather be known for his photographs of U.S. presidents. Read More