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
Jessye Norman, 1990
Alberto Giacometti, 1965
Pablo Picasso, 1954
W.H. Auden, 1972
Mother Teresa, 1988
Martha Graham, 1948
Joan Miro, 1965
Albert Einstein, 1948
Fidel Castro, 1971
Jacqueline Kennedy, 1957
Paul Claudel, 1954
Grace Kelly, 1956
Audrey Hepburn, 1956
Carl Jung, 1958
Georgia O’Keeffe, 1956
Francois Mauriac, 1949
General Dwight Eisenhower, 1946
Ernest Hemingway, 1957
Winston Churchill, 1941
Humphrey Bogart, 1946
Albert Schweitzer, 1954
Thomas S. Cullen, 1947
Frank Lloyd Wright, 1945
Marian Anderson, 1945
George Bernard Shaw, 1943
Jean Sibelius, 1949
Jasper Johns, 1990
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1962
Jim Hensen
Chiang Kai-Shek
Henry Moore
Edward Steichen
Boris Karloff
Stephen Butler Leacock
Andy Warhol
Brigitte Bardot
Leopold Stowkowski
Jan Sibelius
Muhammad Ali
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