Over a glittering 50-year career, award-winning photojournalist Harry Benson has covered the central events & personalities of our time. With a range that is unequaled
- from the Beatles to Bosnia, from world leaders to thousands of the most glamorous celebrities
- Bensons unforgettable images have found their way onto the pages (and often the covers) of such major magazines as Life, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, & People. Benson has a lifetime of photographs to show & stories to tell in this fabulous retrospective of his work. As John Loengard, former picture editor of Life & People, says: " He knows where it is important to go & what it is important to see. What he sees informs us all."

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The Fab Five. Behind Beatlemania. In early 1964, Harry Benson was getting on a plane for a foreign assignment in Africa, when he got a call from the photo editor of London newspaper " The Daily Express". He was now going with The Beatles to Paris to document French Beatlemania & what followed was the biggest (ticket to) ride of his life. Benson was warmly welcomed into The Beatles inner sanctum, resulting in some of the most intimate photographs ever taken of the b&, then on the cusp of world domination. In Paris, he took the famous photograph of the Fab Four having a pillow fight at the George V Hotel; he shot their groundbreaking first visit to the United States, the full impact of New York hysteria, their famous appearance on " The Ed Sullivan" show, the band in Florida, including their surprising encounter with Cassius Clay; as well as on the set of "A Hard Days Night". The relationship continued in 1966, including Georges honeymoon in Barbados & their notorious US tour, under the shadow cast by Lennons comment that the Beatles were "bigger than Jesus Christ." Bensons luminous black & white photographs show at close quarters The Beatles composing, performing, encountering their fans, relaxing, & engaging with each other, while trying to cope with their increasingly isolating fame. In addition to hundreds of photographs, many previously unseen, there is an introductory essay by Benson as well as"es & newspaper clippings from the period. ...

The definitive story of Harry Bol&, the ardent & prominent Republican, loyal confidant to de Valera & close friend &, later, love rival to Michael Collins for the heart of Kitty Kiernan. This is a detailed & dramatic account of the intricate part played by him in Ireland's struggle towards independence. Covering Boland's role in the 1916 Rising, his involvement with Sinn Fein & work in the 1918 general election, through his time in America during the War of Independence, when he came to national prominence campaigning for American support for Irish freedom, it also details Boland's subsequent return to a broken homeland on the cusp of civil war & his ill-fated attempts to stop the worst from happening. A free Irish Republic meant everything to Harry Bol&, & he was to give his all to try to make this reality. ...

Harry & the family have gone to the beach but it's too sunny & he's one hot dog! There's nowhere else for him to get some shade than under a pile of seaweed! The only problem is that now everyone thinks he's a sea monster & he can't find his family. This is the third classic story from the Harry series & is as fresh & funny as when it was first written. ...

Harry & the family have gone to the beach but its too sunny & hes one hot dog! Theres nowhere else for him to get some shade than under a pile of seaweed! The only problem is that now everyone thinks hes a sea monster & he cant find his family. This is the third classic story from the Harry series & is as fresh & funny as when it was first written. ...

This title features three notecards based on illustrations from the Irelands memorial records 1914-18 (Dublin, 1923). The Memorial records were compiled by the committee of the Irish National War Memorial; they preserve the names of over 49, 000 Irishmen who lost their lives fighting in the Great War. A limited edition of 100 copies was published, one of which is held in the RIA Collections. The illustration in the Memorial records was by Harry Clarke (1889-1931), who, as well as being a world-renowned stained-glass artist, was a highly respected book illustrator. ...

Part of a series of exciting & luxurious Flame Tree Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, ...

Harry Clarke was Irelands greatest stained glass artist & arguably the finest of his time in any country. He was also an illustrator of genius, whose works have been collectors items for decades. Out of print for over 15 years, this new edition will be an enormous contribution to the literature of Irish art, & a collectors item in itself. ...

Through the winter of 2002/3, as Britain & the United States prepare for war with Iraq, one man above all others is doing his utmost to avoid conflict. Step forward Captain Harry Flashman, a staff officer with the Queens Royal Hussars & distant descendant of legendary Victorian scoundrel General Sir Harry Flashman, VC. The passing generations have done nothing to fortify his moral fibre. Flashmans journey begins with a posting to Plymouth, home of the Royal Marines, in time to join the impending Gulf deployment. Despite his protestations he is shipped to Kuwait to begin a relatively secure job with Brigade Headquarters. But his plans for a cosy war spent safely behind a desk are rudely interrupted by an enforced move to a front-line unit. After bust-ups with the Americans & a foiled attempt to avoid the invasion altogether, Flashman finds himself in the one place he has tried so hard to avoid: the very vanguard of the assault. Landing by helicopter with the Royal Marines, he is soon footslogging through the mud & fighting for his life as the men of 42 Commando seize their objectives on the Al Faw Peninsula. Based on the experiences of the author, Harry Flashman & the Invasion of Iraq is a historically accurate account of events in the Gulf during spring 2003
- embellished only slightly for the enjoyment of the reader.
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Born in Antwerp in 1941, Harry Gruyaert was one of the first European photographers to explore the creative potential of colour in the 1970s & 1980s. This book brings together his best work, including images from his renowned 1972 series TV Shots & the later Made in Belgium, in one beautifully produced volume. Influenced by such American photographers as Saul Leiter, Joel Meyerowitz, Stephen Shore & William Eggleston, as well as by cinema, Gruyaert's work defined new territory for colour photography: an emotive, non-narrative & boldly graphic way of perceiving the world. His photographs are autonomous & self-sufficient, often independent from any context or thematic logic. A member of Magnum Photos since 1982, he has embraced the possibilities of digital photography in his most recent work, feeling that it allows him to take more risks & capture new kinds of light. ...