Harry Benson: Shoot First
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You know that photo of Muhammad Ali knocking over four moptop dominoes? Harry Benson took that. The photo of an aged Greta Garbo in a swimcap? Harry Benson. Frank and Mia masked at the Black and While ball, Ronnie and Nancy waltzing on the cover of whatever magazine it was? Benson, Benson. And the camera Ethel Kennedy is trying to block from photographing her dying husband? That's in Harry's hands, too.
A documentary about a brilliant Scot that barely nods at the ethics of images like the second and fifth mentioned above, but no less enthralling for that. The images are what matters to Harry and, in the end, to us. And good god, what images they are.
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