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Contact Sheets—Closely Guarded by Photographers—Are Becoming Collectors’ Items

Once integral to a photographer's profession, contact sheets' are now proving to be fascinating collectors' items for what they reveal about the artists who made them.

By Karen Chernick

Harry Benson on Palm Beach Socialites, Dick Nixon and Shooting the IRA

Acclaimed photojournalist Harry Benson has a knack for being in the right place at the right time. The New York-based Glaswegian got his big break on Fleet Street when he crashed a party attended by the son of Lord Beaverbrook—the indomitable owner of the Daily Express in the 1950s. In America, he achieved fame in 1964, when he shuttered the lens the moment John Lennon instigated that iconic pillow fight.

By Lale Arikoglu

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

By Kat Stoeffel

Feldshuh Floored by German Docudrama; Maysles Brother Can’t Read Subtitles

By Bonnie Kavoussi

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