#harry benson

[javelinbk]

‘On Feb. 7, 1964, Benson traveled with the Beatles on Pan American World Airways Flight 101 from London, on assignment for The Daily Express. Sitting in first class with the four Beatles as the Yankee Clipper prepared to touch down at 1:20 p.m., Benson shared an idea with them about a picture that would capture the excitement of their arrival.

“I said, ‘When you get four steps down the stairs to the runway, you turn around,’ And they all said, ‘Yes, yes, fine, good idea.’ They got off the plane to walk down, and they walked down, and they walked past the sixth (step), the seventh. They’d forgotten to do it! I was shouting, ‘Turn around!’’’

The shouts from fans and photographers behind the barricades on the tarmac was drowning out Benson’s frantic yells, which can be seen in film footage of the Beatles exiting the plane.

Luckily, Benson was able to grab the coat of Ringo Starr, the last Beatle to walk down the stairs, who quickly reminded the other three Beatles to turn around for Benson’s camera.’ (x)

The Beatles arrive in America for the first time, 7th February 1964

[strawberryjohnlennon]

John Lennon and Paul McCartney photographed by Harry Benson in February of 1964

[federer7]

James Brown. Atlanta. 1979

Photo by Harry Benson

[a-state-of-bliss]

Kate Moss backstage @ Vivienne Westwood Spr/Sum 1994 by Harry Benson

[bitchtoss]

Mariah Carey photographed by Harry Benson, 1991

[seventh-victim]

Dolly Parton, Nashville  1976  (photo: Harry Benson)

[exhausted-think-bucket]

Paris, 1964 📸 Harry Benson

[joeinct]

Berlin Kiss, Photo by Harry Benson, 1996

[robertocustodioart]

Diana Vreeland by Harry Benson 1980

[hildeeveraert]

Harry Benson, Fishing Boy, England, 1962

[tavolgisvist]

'A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you — daft as a brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. <…> What the strag [non-hitch hiker] will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.' ( Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

[ceofjohnlennon]

The Beatles by Harry Benson. ㅡ From the book "The Beatles: Then and Now" by Harry Benson.

[classicfilmloves]

Eartha Kitt photographed by Harry Benson 1965

[a-state-of-bliss]

Kate Moss backstage @ John Galliano Spr/Sum 1993 by Harry Benson

[davidhudson]

Darryl F. Zanuck, September 5, 1902 – December 22, 1979.

1966 photo by Harry Benson.

[blondebrainpowered]

Ray Charles with his granddaughters, 1991

Photographer: Harry Benson