Richard Benson
For other people named Richard Benson, see Richard Benson (disambiguation).
Richard M. A. Benson (November 8, 1943, Newport, Rhode Island) is an American printer, teacher, and photographer.
He taught at Yale University until 2011 and was dean of the Yale School of Art from 1996 to 2006.[1]
Awards
- 1978 Guggenheim Fellow
- National Endowment for the Arts fellow
- 1984 MacArthur Fellows Program
Works
- Photographs from the Collection of the Gilman Paper Company, White Oak Press, 1985 (Benson made multiple halftone films from each photograph, exposed those films to plates, and printed the plates on a single-color sheet-fed offset printing press.)
- Lay This Laurel, Eakins Press, 1973, co-authored with Lincoln Kirstein
- A Maritime Album, The Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, Virginia, 1997 co-authored with John Szarkowski.
- A Yale Album, Yale University Press, 2001
- The Printed Picture, Museum of Modern Art, 2008
References
External links
- "A Single Person Making A Single Thing" Calvin Tomkins, Profiles, The New Yorker, December 17, 1990, p. 48
- "Richard Benson", View Camera, January/February, 1997
- "Richard Benson", Pace/MacGill Gallery
- The Printed Picture by Richard Benson, October 18, 2008
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