Harry Benson is one of those internationally renowned photographers you need to remember. He is the man behind the hundreds of cover photos of various popular magazines like Life, People, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair to just name a few.
He has been living with photography for over 50 years bringing top photography that today has a iconic influence and importance. Imagine yourself as a photographer, starting fresh and learning, it takes you 5 years (just theoretically, it usually takes longer than that, but there’s still a lot of chance you won’t develop it) and you may develop your own style.
Work with it for maybe 5 years more and make it even better. The problems start here, or even sooner since you don’t have more ideas, your imagination is exhausted and you mostly used all the techniques. You think the equipment is too old so you get a new one. Nothing really changes… That’s the point in your life when you may reach your peak.
Some people like Harry Benson got winds so they can go up, flying and continuing their work for couple of decades more. They leave us way behind… Just like Picasso drew picture after picture, not even laying his pencils down, Harry Benson took a shot after shot pulling ideas from their bottomless imagination, inspiration and experience.
Each photograph was different then the previous one and most of them got to the cover. That’s what the masters of photography do, making something that will last forever and whenever someone would look at their work, he’s gonna have a open mouth and maybe even drool.
And now, the work of Harry Benson:
Tags: Masters of photography, Photography
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