{"id":18410,"date":"2017-07-16T06:06:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T10:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=18410"},"modified":"2017-07-16T06:06:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T10:06:50","slug":"photographer-richard-benson-memoriam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/18410\/photographer-richard-benson-memoriam\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer Richard Benson – In Memoriam"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lee Friedlander\u2019s \u201cRichard Benson, 1984.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photographer Richard Benson died of heart failure June 22, 2017 at the age of 73. The photographic community lost a brilliant mind that advanced print making.
\n“Mr. Benson, known as Chip, believed in the painterly impact of reproducing the work of photographers like Irving Penn, Lee Friedlander and Helen Levitt on an offset printing press. A photographer himself \u2014 as well as a longtime teacher at Yale and for 10 years the dean of its school of art \u2014 Mr. Benson was no stranger to the darkroom. But the offset press \u2014 and, later, inkjet printers \u2014 fueled his fascination with using new mechanical forms to recreate photographic images …”
\nRead the full article on the NY Times.<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
\nFind his book North South East West here.<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
\nFind his book The Printed Picture here.<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
\nRead our conversation here.<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
\nRead quotes by Richard Benson here.<\/a><\/span><\/strong>
\nView video with Richard Benson here.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lee Friedlander\u2019s \u201cRichard Benson, 1984.\u201d Photographer Richard Benson died of heart failure June 22, 2017 at the age of 73. 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