The Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh took many classic portraits of the world’s most famous people, including writers, actors, singers and humanitarians. Take a stroll through history with this collection of some of Karsh’s finest portraiture.

Helen Keller with Polly Thompson, 1948

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Jessye Norman, 1990

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Alberto Giacometti, 1965

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Pablo Picasso, 1954

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W.H. Auden, 1972

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Mother Teresa, 1988

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Martha Graham, 1948

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Joan Miro, 1965

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Albert Einstein, 1948

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Fidel Castro, 1971

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Jacqueline Kennedy, 1957

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Paul Claudel, 1954

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Grace Kelly, 1956

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Audrey Hepburn, 1956

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Carl Jung, 1958

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Georgia O’Keeffe, 1956

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Francois Mauriac, 1949

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General Dwight Eisenhower, 1946

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Ernest Hemingway, 1957

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Winston Churchill, 1941

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Humphrey Bogart, 1946

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Albert Schweitzer, 1954

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Thomas S. Cullen, 1947

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Frank Lloyd Wright, 1945

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Marian Anderson, 1945

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George Bernard Shaw, 1943

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Jean Sibelius, 1949

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Jasper Johns, 1990

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1962

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Jim Hensen

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Chiang Kai-Shek

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Henry Moore

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Edward Steichen

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Boris Karloff

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Stephen Butler Leacock

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Andy Warhol

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Brigitte Bardot

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Leopold Stowkowski

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Jan Sibelius

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Muhammad Ali

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