Harry Benson: 60 Years of Photographs

It was called the “party of the century”: Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball. Benson was positioned on the steps outside the Plaza, and caught Mia Farrow and Frank Sinatra as they entered. “Sinatra looked a bit dopey with his mask on,” Benson recalls. “Someone shouted at him, ‘There’s Frankie Batman!,' and he was furious.”