Kathryn Leigh Scott posted on her Facebook page that her former husband and business partner Ben Martin passed away of a pulmonary embolism on February 10th. I think that we all knew that Ben had worked as a photographer for Time magazine but I don't know if we all knew how truly iconic some of his pictures were. He took a picture of Richard Nixon during the debate with JFK that cost Nixon votes and quite possibly the presidency. He also took some heartbreaking pictures of Jacqueline Kennedy and her children after the funeral. Ben was everywhere in the 1960's. Martin Luther King. Marilyn Monroe. Hugh Hefner. And much, much more.
I remember him well from the Festivals, both during his marriage to Kathryn and after, usually wearing his bush jacket. Classy, classy guy. Rest in peace, Ben.