Awards

• 1978 Guggenheim Fellow
• National Endowment for the Arts
  National Endowment for the Arts
  The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
  
   fellow
• 1984 MacArthur Fellows Program
  MacArthur Fellows Program
  The MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship is an award given by the John D. and Catherine T...
  
  

Works

• Photographs from the Collection of the Gilman Paper Company, White Oak Press, 1985 (Benson made multiple halftone
  Halftone
  Halftone is the reprographic technique that simulates continuous tone imagery through the use of dots, varying either in size, in shape or in spacing...
  
   films from each photograph, exposed those films to plates, and printed the plates on a single-color sheet-fed offset printing
  Offset printing
  Offset printing is a commonly used printing technique in which the inked image is transferred from a plate to a rubber blanket, then to the printing surface...
  
  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

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/McGill Gallery
• The Printed Picture by Richard Benson, October 18, 2008