A GALLERY FOR FINE PHOTOGRAPHY
322 Royal Street
New Orleans, LA  70117
Telephone 504-568-1313
Fax 504-568-1322
www.agallery.com

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 March 26, 1999

A Gallery for Fine Photography
in celebration of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, 
presents an exhibition of original photographs by:

HARRY BENSON: 
The Beatles: Now and Then
April 15-July 15, 1999

RECEPTION FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHER AND BOOK SIGNING
*****Thursday, May 6, 1999*****
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Harry Benson began his career in his hometown of Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1950s and spent several years on Fleet Street.  He traveled to America with the Beatles in 1964 and decided to stay.  His photographs appear frequently in magazines such as Life, Vanity Fair, G.Q., ESPN, The New Yorker, and other publications.  Harry Benson has twice been named "Magazine Photographer of the Year" by the National Press Photographers Association, twice received the Leica Medal of Excellence, has won the Overseas Press Club Madeline Dane Ross Award, and was given the 1996 PMDA Professional Photographer Award.  His work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. 
Harry Benson now lives in New York with his wife Gigi and their two children, Wendy and Tessa.

Books Available: 
The Beatles : Now and Then, soft cover, $19.99
First Families: An Intimate Portrait from JFK to Clinton, soft cover, $29.95

New Gallery Acquisitions:
W. Eugene Smith: Chaplin at work, 1952, 14" x 9", Silver Gelatin
My Daughter Juanita, 1953, 13" x 11", Silver Gleatin
Atoms For Peace: Mural Painting, 1958,  11" x 14", Silver Gelatin
Sandy Skoglund:  Shimmering Madness, 1998, 36" x 48", Cibachrome, Edition of 30

Upcoming 1999 Exhibitions:
E.O. Goldbeck, Panoramas, 1911-1980, June 15-September 15, 1999
Roman Vishniac, Vanishing World:  Polish Jews, 1930-1939,   September 1- November 1, 1999
Franco Salmoiraghi, The Body and the Landscape, 
in conjunction with Art For Art's Sake, October 1- December 1, 1999
Danny Lyon, People of the American Indian Nations, November 1- January 1, 2000. 


For more information, please call 568-1313.