Yousuf Karsh, master photographer of the 20th century
1954
“‘He will never be here,’ the gallery owner commented, when my assistant and two hundred pounds of equipment arrived. ‘He says the same thing to every photographer.’ To everyone’s amazement, the ‘old lion’ not only kept his photographic appointment with me but was prompt and wore a new shirt.”
During his career he held 15,312 sittings, produced over 370,000 negatives, and left an indelible artistic and historic record of the men and women who shaped the twentieth century.
Yousuf Karsh’s (1908-2002) extraordinary and unique body of work presents the viewer with an intimate and compassionate view of humanity.
The Bank of England chose Winston Churchill by Yousuf Karsh to appear on the front of its all-new polymer banknote, now in circulation across the UK.
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Blass was the recipient of many fashion awards.
White was an American physician and cardiologist.
He told Karsh he would sit for a portrait if Karsh made him look as good as Audrey Hepburn.
“Here was a courteous but reticent man who did not wear his heart on his sleeve.”
Cousteau was born on this day, June 11, in 1910.
Karsh photographed her for LIFE magazine in 1946.
On June 3, 1937, former King Edward VIII married Wallis Simpson.
Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first recorded climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Nehru served as his country’s first prime minister.
Sakharov was a Soviet and Russian nuclear physicist, dissident, Nobel laureate, and activist.
Getty is pictured at home in England.