Benson, Richard (1943-2017)

When a Master Printer Picks Up the Camera

PHILADELPHIA — Is technical wizardry enough to make someone an artist? Richard Benson was unrivaled as a printer of photographs before he became a photographer. Hired in his early twenties by an art-book printing company to make halftone negatives to run on an offset press, he realized, as he later wrote, “I couldn’t understand printing […]