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RFK: A Photographer's Journal
by Harry Benson (photographer) GiGi Benson (editor)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1576874508
- ISBN 13
- 9781576874509
- Seller
-
Santa Monica, California, United States
Item Price
A$116.21A$87.15
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About This Item
powerHouse Books, 2008. First edition (2008.) Hardcover with dust jacket. Folio with 144 pages. Signed on the title page, "To Rosemary, All those years we have been great friends with affection Harry, Harry Benson." The book and dust jacket are in very good condition with some slight shelf wear. Interior is clean and tight. Some slight bumping to top edges of the dust jacket. "This is a memorial book, commemorating the life of Bobby Kennedy by a photojournalist who considered him a friend..Very good quality and exceeds my expectation!" White-Black spine/Black-White text. . Signed. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio. Photojournalism .
Synopsis
Scottish-born photojournalist Harry Benson arrived in America with the Beatles in 1964 and stayed. Benson has photographed every U.S. president from Eisenhower to George W. Bush; was just feet away from Bobby Kennedy the night he was assassinated and in the room with Richard Nixon when he resigned; witnessed both the construction and demolition of the Berlin Wall; and covered the Gulf War and the struggle in Afghanistan. Among numerous honors, Benson has twice been named NPPA Magazine Photographer of the Year and twice received the Leica Medal of Excellence; in 2005, he received the Lucie Award for Lifetime Achievement in Portrait Photography. He has worked under contract for Life, Vanity Fair, Architectural Digest , and other publications, had 40 solo exhibitions, and released 11 books, including Harry Benson’s Glasgow (Black & White, 2007) and Tivoli Gardens (Abrams, 2007).
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Details
- Seller
- Jero Books and Templet Co.
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 033268
- Title
- RFK: A Photographer's Journal
- Author
- Harry Benson (photographer) GiGi Benson (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1576874508
- ISBN 13
- 9781576874509
- Publisher
- powerHouse Books
- Place of Publication
- Brooklyn, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2008
- Size
- Folio
- Keywords
- powerHouse Books RFK: A Photographer's Journal Gigi Benson (Editor)
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About the Seller
Jero Books and Templet Co.
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Santa Monica, California
About Jero Books and Templet Co.
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