Doors open on new Pollok Gallery

| Update 20/11/23: Pollok House closed on 20 November 2023 for approximately two years to facilitate the second phase of a £4 million programme of investment led by Glasgow City Council. |

The inaugural exhibition celebrates the work of one of the world’s best-known photographers - Glasgow-born photo-journalist Harry Benson CBE.

Harry Benson: From Glasgow to America will take place until the end of the year and is being shown in areas of Pollok House that were previously inaccessible to the public. Former staff accommodation areas have been transformed into gallery space, which will be used for temporary exhibitions of art, history and stories about Pollok House. The project received grant funding from Museums Galleries Scotland and the Foyle Foundation.

Harry Benson first travelled to the USA with The Beatles in 1964, during their inaugural tour of the country. His pictures have since appeared in Life, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, while he has also taken more than 100 cover shots for People magazine.

During his illustrious career, Harry has chronicled some of the most important moments in modern history. He has photographed every US President from Eisenhower to Donald Trump, was feet away from Senator Bobby Kennedy the night he was assassinated, was in the room with President Richard Nixon when he resigned, witnessed the Berlin Wall being built and taken down, and was on the Civil Rights James Meredith March with Martin Luther King Jr.

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