Benn Mitchell
Born: January 1926, New York City.

Benn Mitchell, from the age of 13 when he received his first camera, has been producing photographs that capture a particularly American vitality.  Born in New York City, he sold his first photograph to Life magazine when he was 16.  At the age of 17 he headed west, gaining permission from Warner Brothers to frequent the studios shooting the Hollywood stars on the various sets and sound stages.  One of his most valued photographs is one of Humphrey Bogart.

After two years of duty as a navy photographer, he returned to New York City and was employed in a large commercial studio.  In 1951 he started his own commercial studio in New York City.

During the weekends and holidays he continued to photograph for his own satisfaction and has won many awards both domestic and international.  He was been published in many photo annuals and today his work appears in Fortune 500 companies, and all over the world in advertising, books and major magazines. Collectors buy his fine art photographs.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS        
        2009      "Urban Abstractions"; Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
        2008      "Color Me New York"; Boca Raton Museum of Art
        2007      "Black and White Prints of New York City"; Elaine Baker Gallery
        2006      "20/30 Vision: An Anniversary Celebration"; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
                       "Black and White Prints of New York City"; Gallery Camino Real
        2005      The Metropolitain Museum of Art aquired photographs for the permanent collection.
        2004      "57 on 57th", Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC
                       "New York, New York:  Photographs by Benn Mitchell and Theresa Bernstein:  An Early Modernism"
                       Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton , FL
        2003      Mizel Center for the Arts and Culture, Denver, CO    
        2002      "Star spangled Spirit", Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC
                       "At Play", SoHo Triad Fine Arts, NYC
        2001      "Nightlife, " Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC
                       "The Streets and Beyond: New York Photographs, Museum of the City of New York, NYC
                       Hackelbury Fine Art, London, England
        2000      Bright Lights, Big City, Winston Wachter Mayer Fine Art, NYC
        1999      Bright Lights, Big City, Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
        1998      "Flashback:  The Fifties", Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC
                       "An American Century, Part II", James Danziger Gallery, NYC
                       SoHo Triad Fine Art, NYC
                       "Fifty from the Fifties", Gallery Uterman, Dortmund, Germany
        1997     "Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.", Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
        1996     "By Night," Foundation Cartier, Paris, France
                      "Summer Salon III," Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC
                      At the Movies, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles
                      Pace/Wildenstein/MacGill, Los Angeles, CA
        1995     "Let's Go to the Movies," Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC
                      "The Cinema," Galerie Utermann, Munich, Germany
                      Janet Borden Gallery, NYC
                      Julie Saul Gallery, NYC
                      "Summer Salon II", Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
        1994     "Five on New York", Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
                       "Up in Smoke," Knoedler Gallery, NYC
        1992      "New York City," Houk Friedman Gallery, NYC


PUBLICATIONS   
    Black & White Magazine
    LIFE Magazine
    New York Times Magazine
    US Air Magazine
    Popular Photography
    Photography Annual
    Modern Photography
    AMFAR Christmas
    US Camera
    Fotofolio
    New Yorker Magazine
    Memoirs:  Mary Cantwell, Penguin Publications
    

SELECTED  COLLECTIONS     
    Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
    Reader's Digest
    Showtime
    Merrill Lynch
    J. P. Morgan
    Banana Republic
    Museum of the City of New York
    Siegel & Gale, Inc
    Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
    Viacom
    US Trust
    The Buhl Collection
    Various private collections