Tivoli Gardens, new photo book by Harry Benson and John Loring

If the Danes are forgetting just how distinctive and unique Tivoli is, they will rediscover this when reading the enthusiastic text and look at the evocative pictures in Tivoli Gardens, a new photo book to be published on 22 November 2007.
It’s a real ’coffee-table book’ with almost 150 photos taken by famous photographer Harry Benson in the course of 2006, with an introduction to Tivoli by John Loring, design director of Tiffany & Co. in New York. The texts of the book are in English and Danish.
The photographs clearly capture the multi-faceted spirit of Tivoli, particularly Benson’s pictures of visitors to Tivoli which show unique moments of intense joy, enthusiasm and excitement.

Available at Tivoli, bookshops and at tivoli.dk/shoppen.
Publisher: Abrams, New York
240 pages. Price: DKK 349

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Harry Benson was a young photographer in Fleet Street, home of the British press in London, when he was sent on an assignment at a day’s notice to cover the US tour of The Beatles. Benson stayed on in America – and kept on travelling around the world with The Beatles. Thus, he also accompanied them to Copenhagen in 1964, and George Harrison and he visited Tivoli together. Today Benson lives in New York, and he can look back on a career of more than 50 years as a photographer of all the major American celebrities and a series of historical milestones and world events.Benson has published Once There Was a Way, Harry Benson’s America, and Harry Benson: 50 Years in Pictures among other books and received numerous awards, including Magazine Photographer of the Year (twice) and the Scottish Press Photographers Association Lifetime Achievement Award. Exhibitions: Harry Benson: Being There at the National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. Harry Benson – 50 Years in Pictures will open at Kelvingrove Museum of Art in Glasgow in 2008.

John Loring first saw Tivoli as a child travelling in Europe with his parents. Many years later when asked to design the Christmas lighting for the Tiffany store and Park Avenue, he took inspiration from that visit to Tivoli and its lights, simply calling the style Tivoli Lights. In 1997, Loring’s Tivoli Lights returned ’home’ to Tivoli. Lars Liebst, managing director of Tivoli, had admired the Park Avenue decoration and found out who designed it. Liebst went to see Loring who became a valuable sparring partner in the development of the special atmosphere that characterises Christmas in Tivoli.John Loring has published several books about everything he likes and is interested in: the history and production of Tiffany, the great houses in Palm Beach (where he has a residence himself), gastronomy, interior decorating and now also Tivoli.

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