9133
Mar 11 1944
Sittings
sitting #
date
Name
Role, Location, Notes
8982
Sep 12 1943
9207
Mar 9 1944
9150
Mar 29 1944
Mr. Paul V. McNutt
Administrator, Federal Security Agency; Chairman, War Manpower Commission
For LIFE Magazine
9153
Mar 30 1944
9154
Mar 31 1944
9158
Apr 3 1944
9161
Apr 4 1944
9163
Apr 6 1944
Mr. Leo T. Crowley
Alien Property Custodian, also Administrator Foreign Economic Administrations, Washington, D.C.
For LIFE Magazine
9166
Apr 8 1944
9178
Apr 14 1944
Lieutenant General Brehon Somervell
Commanding General Army Services forces, Washington, D.C.
For LIFE Magazine
9180
Apr 15 1944
9191
Apr 22 1944
9210
May 11 1944
9179
May 15 1944
General H. H. Arnold
Commanding General Army Air Forces, War Dept., Washington, D.C.
For LIFE Magazine
9214
May 18 1944
9656
Jan 1 1945
9501
Apr 1 1945
Mr. Robert E. Hannegan
Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Washington, D.C.
For LIFE Magazine
9506
Apr 1 1945
9509
Apr 1 1945
Mr. Edward F. Prichard
General Counsel, Office of War, Mobilization and Reconversion, Washington, D.C.
For LIFE Magazine
9511
Apr 1 1945
9519
Apr 28 1945
Commander Harold E. Stassen
USNR. Delegate to United Nations Conference at San Francisco, California. Formerly Flag Officer to Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr., Admiral of 3rd Fleet in Pacific
For LIFE Magazine
9520
Apr 30 1945
9522
May 1 1945
The Right Honorable Joseph Paul-Boncour
Former French President of the Council at San Francisco
For LIFE Magazine
9523
May 2 1945
9525
May 3 1945
9526
May 3 1945
9532
May 6 1945
9531
May 7 1945
His Royal Highness Ibn Abdul Aziz Faisal
Viceroy of the Hejaz and Minister of Foreign Affairs for Saudi Arabia, at San Francisco, California
For LIFE Magazine
9640
Nov 9 1945
Mr. George Washington Hill
President, American Tobacco Company
For LIFE Magazine Captains of Industry
9641
Nov 10 1945
Mr. Harvey S. Firestone Jr.
President, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
For LIFE Magazine Captains of Industry
9643
Nov 11 1945
9644
Nov 14 1945
9645
Nov 15 1945
Mr. Walter Gifford
President, American Telephone & Telegraph, AT&T
For LIFE Magazine Captains of Industry
9646
Nov 16 1945
9653
Nov 27 1945
9654
Nov 28 1945
9676
Dec 17 1945
9689
Jan 9 1946
9692
Jan 11 1946
9699
Jan 29 1946
9700
Jan 30 1946
11215
Sep 28 1955
The Honorable Charles E. Wilson
United States Secretary of Defense
For LIFE Magazine, through PIX Publishing
11216
Sep 29 1955
Mr. George Humphrey
United States Secretary of the Treasury for President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
For LIFE Magazine, through PIX Publishing
11217
Sep 29 1955
General Wilton B. Persons
Liaison Officer. Deputy Assistant to the President
For LIFE Magazine, through PIX Publishing
12302
Sep 17 1963
13672
Jan 14 1975
14379
Mar 12 1982
Robert A. Bandeen
Chairman & President, Crown Life Insurance Co.
For Concordia University, for Montreal Business Report magazine
14380
Mar 30 1982
James Earl Jones
Dual sitting with Christopher Plummer. In costumes for Othello and Iago parts
For LIFE Magazine
14380
Mar 30 1982
Christopher Plummer
Dual sitting with James Earl Jones. In costumes for Othello and Iago parts
For LIFE Magazine
14386
Jun 10 1982
Medea
Actresses from the play. Judith Anderson and Zoe Caldwell in costume for parts in Medea. photographed together and individually
For LIFE Magazine
14386
Jun 10 1982
14386
Jun 10 1982
15063
Feb 17 1989
9152
Mar 30 1944
Photographs
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Henry Luce
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John F. Kennedy
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Calgary Stampede
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Horses and Farmer
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Vancouver at Night
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Antique Shop
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Great Lakes Paper Company
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Stanley Park
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Porter at Union Station
Legacy
LIFE Magazine and the Power of Photography
Winston Churchill, 1941 by Yousuf Karsh; LIFE cover from 1945 courtesy of the publisher The exhibition “LIFE Magazine and the Power of Photography” opens this week at Princeton University Art…
LIFE Magazine: John F. Kennedy Cover, 1961
…1963 John F. Kennedy memorial edition of LIFE. See more John F. Kennedy by Yousuf Karsh. Search the Sittings for all LIFE Magazine shoots. Cover: Courtesy LIFE/The Picture Collection, Inc….
LIFE Magazine: John F. Kennedy Cover, 1963
…1963 featuring a portrait by Karsh from 1960. See more John F. Kennedy by Yousuf Karsh. Search the Sittings for all LIFE Magazine shoots. Cover: Courtesy LIFE/The Picture Collection, Inc….
LIFE Magazine: Ernest Hemingway Cover, 1961
…most famous of all Hemingway photographs: the roll-neck sweater. See more Ernest Hemingway by Yousuf Karsh. Search the Sittings for all LIFE Magazine shoots. Cover: Courtesy LIFE/The Picture Collection, Inc….
“LIFE”
Henry Luce, 1944 This month marks the anniversary of the first issue of LIFE magazine published by its new owner Henry Luce. From 1883, LIFE had been a humor and…
Clement Attlee
…“The Right Honorable Clement Attlee MP, Deputy Prime Minister”; 1945: “The Right Honorable Clement Attlee MP, For LIFE Magazine”; and 1949: “Prime Minister Clement Attlee, For Newsweek Magazine.” See more….
Clement Attlee
…“The Right Honorable Clement Attlee MP, Deputy Prime Minister”; 1945: “The Right Honorable Clement Attlee MP, For LIFE Magazine”; and 1949: “Prime Minister Clement Attlee, For Newsweek Magazine.” See more….
J. Edgar Hoover
…others, even sitting presidents of the United States. Read more (Wikipedia) Karsh photographed Hoover in 1944 on assignment for LIFE magazine. See other people who sat for Karsh and LIFE….
Sports Illustrated
Henry Luce, 1944 August 16, 1954, saw the launch of Sports Illustrated magazine. It was founded by Henry Luce (1898-1967), an American magazine magnate who also founded Time, LIFE, and…
John F. Kennedy
…Senator Edward Kennedy, in 1968, and Robert Kennedy, US Attorney General at the time, in 1962. See John F. Kennedy on the cover of LIFE Magazine in 1961 and 1963….
Bernard Baruch
…European allies. Read more (Wikipedia) Bernard M. Baruch was photographed by Karsh in 1944 as “Special Advisor to Director, Office of War Mobilization” for LIFE Magazine. See more Bernard Baruch….
Harry S. Truman
…served four months as Vice President before Franklin D. Roosevelt died in office. Karsh photographed him as Senator Harry S. Truman, Missouri, for LIFE Magazine in 1944, and again in…
Anthony Eden
…Right Honorable Anthony Eden as British Foreign Secretary in 1943 with Canada’s Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King. Eden sat again for LIFE magazine in 1945, and once more in…
Better Photography: Great Masters
Betty Low, 1936 India’s Better Photography is the leading photography magazine in India and South Asia. Past issues have included articles about Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Alan Harvey, Cecil Beaton, Gordon…
John F. Kennedy
…Kennedy in 1957 and 1960, when JFK was the senator for Massachusetts. Jacqueline Kennedy was also photographed in ’57. LIFE Magazine’s memorial edition for John F. Kennedy after his death…
Judy Garland
…LIFE. Other Hollywood actors who were photographed for the magazine that same year include Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotton, Boris Karloff, and Gregory Peck. See a complete list of LIFE sittings….
Bernard Baruch
…Baruch, May 11, 1944. Special Advisor to Director, Office of War Mobilization. For LIFE Magazine.” Baruch died on this day, June 20, in 1965. Read more about his life (Wikipedia)….
Ford Motor Company
…See Karsh “On Assignment“. He photographed Ford’s grandson, Henry Ford II, for LIFE Magazine in 1946, and again in 1968. Ford II was president of the Ford Motor Company from…
Peggy Cummins, 1925–2017
…up remained a mystery for many years before we learned it was Peggy Cummins, who was photographed in 1946 for LIFE Magazine. Read her obituary in the New York Times….
Fidel Castro
…impressed that Castro – a revolutionary – should have made room in his life for these creative luminaries. See some magazine covers that featured Karsh in their obituaries of Castro….
Justice Felix Frankfurter
…noted advocate of judicial restraint in the judgments of the Court. Karsh photographed Frankfurter on assignment for LIFE – see a list of others who Karsh photographed for the magazine….
John F. Kennedy
…his run for the Presidency. LIFE magazine’s memorial edition for John F. Kennedy after his death in 1963 would feature a color portrait from the 1960 sitting. See more Kennedys….
Thomas Mann’s Hands
…California, for LIFE magazine. “There was one picture in particular that won the attention of the photographer and of his sitter: a close-up of Thomas Mann’s hands.” Mann was a…
Joan Baez
…new life into the genre and powered rock music’s turn toward social and political consciousness.” Baez is one of a handful who were photographed for Look magazine for an article…
Vyacheslav Molotov
…Francisco Conference”; the conference resulted in the creation of the United Nations Charter. It was during this visit to the USA that he was photographed by Karsh, for LIFE Magazine….
James McIntosh
James McIntosh, 1945 When Yousuf Karsh was assigned to photograph General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, for LIFE magazine, Marshall said to the photographer, “You…
Judy Garland
Judy Garland, 1946 The American actress, singer and dancer Judy Garland was born on this day, June 10, in 1992 (d. 1969). Karsh photographed her for LIFE magazine in 1946….
Gordon Parks
…is best remembered for his iconic photos of poor Americans during the 1940s (taken for a federal government project), for his photographic essays for LIFE magazine, and as the director…
James V. Forrestal
…of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense. He was born on February 15, 1892, (d. 1949) and was photographed by Karsh in 1944 for LIFE Magazine….
Exhibitions
Portraits, curated by Grazia Neri
Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy, 2009
General
A Brief Biography
…it was the original Garden of Eden, should have been the scene of the Turkish atrocities against the Armenians in 1915. Cruelty and torture were everywhere; nevertheless, life had to…