Harry Benson Quotes

• A good photograph is one that can't be repeated.

  Harry Benson

  Photograph

  "Excerpt: 'The LIFE Guide to Photography'". abcnews.go.com. December 27, 2010.

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• There is only one point of view, that is your point of view. You are making a mistake if you see the point of view of people. There is only one and that is your livelihood.

  Harry Benson

  Mistake, People, Making Mistakes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The thing about photography is that every day is a new day, even if you are working on the same story, because every day you have got a chance to correct what you did the day before, and try to take it a bit further or a bit back.

  Harry Benson

  Photography, New Day, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't know what I would have done if I had had to work for a living.

  Harry Benson

  Done, Evil Dead, Knows

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• I was next to Bobby [Kennedy] when he was shot. It was hideous. Part of me wanted to crawl away. I couldn't... I still wake up in the night and think about it. I even remember the f-stop. It was 1.4.

  Harry Benson

  Night, Thinking, Wake Up

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• It takes a while for a photograph to mature. That sounds really pretentious, but it takes a time for it to go from here to there.

  Harry Benson

  Mature, Photograph, Pretentious

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have always been anonymous, that is the position I should be. And it is hard to say why or how you did something, it just happens.

  Harry Benson

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• John Lennon brought his wife Cynthia, a nice blonde girl and she was horribly put out of sight and stayed home. I know it broke John's heart John wasn't happy about it and she was-- because we spoke on the plane. I photographed her and them on the plane coming over. And you know photographs don't lie. They tried putting on a black wig on her for a couple of days and that was the sad part that kept quiet because they wanted them to be like, you know, fresh- which they were

  Harry Benson

  Girl, Couple, Nice

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• My ethics are basically around animals. I cannot do animals in distress. I was able to shut myself off with humans, and in a strange way, if you go through violence, you come out stronger at the other end than what you went in.

  Harry Benson

  Animal, Stronger, Violence

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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