HARVEY BENGE: Some Things You Should Have Told me even as 15 year-olds –

even as 15 year-olds – and so during the 1960s and 1970s they became increasingly popular in rural areas

Text: Chris Petit & Angela Weight

liver-crushing levels of alcohol

one of the key landmarks of the American War of Independence – were taken at the time of the Vietnam War – a pivotal period in American history

giving the wire a respectful distance

HARVEY BENGE: Some Things You Should Have Told me even as 15 year-olds –Jrg Colberg, Conscientious Magazine, 10 best photo books of the year William Eggleston once asked Harvey Benge What are you doing these days? Photographing the urban social landscape, said Benge. Dont talk bullshit; what are you doing? Eggleston insisted. Making strange pictures in cities, replied Benge. However you look at them, Harvey Benges photographs are mostly urban and generally strange. His work is mysterious; nothing is solid. The pictures