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Yousuf Karsh, master photographer of the 20th century

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Sittings

sitting #
date
Name
Role, Location, Notes
10171
Jun 18 1948

Dr. W. S. Lindsay

Dean of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan
Deans of Medicine of Canadian Universities. For Charles E. Frosst Company
10173
Jun 18 1948

Dr. J. B. Collip

Dean of Medicine, University of Western Ontario
Deans of Medicine of Canadian Universities. For Charles E. Frosst Company
10174
Jun 18 1948

Dr. H. G. Grant

Dean of Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University
Deans of Medicine of Canadian Universities. For Charles E. Frosst Company
10176
Jun 19 1948

Dr. A. T. Mathers

Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Medical School, Winniped, Manitoba
Deans of Medicine of Canadian Universities. For Charles E. Frosst Company
10175
Jun 19 1948

Dr. J. A. MacFarlane

Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Deans of Medicine of Canadian Universities. For Charles E. Frosst Company
10177
Jun 19 1948

Dr. J. J. Ower

Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta
Deans of Medicine of Canadian Universities. For Charles E. Frosst Company
10178
Jun 19 1948

Dr. J. F. McIntosh

Secretary of the Association of Canadian Medical Colleges Faculty of Medicine, McGill University
Deans of Medicine of Canadian Universities. For Charles E. Frosst Company
10199
Sep 7 1948

Dr. Charles Vezina

Dean of Medicine, Laval University
Deans of Medicine of Canadian Universities. For Charles E. Frosst Company
10220
Oct 7 1948

Dean Frederick Smith

Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, McGill University
Deans of Medicine of Canadian Universities. For Charles E. Frosst Company
14431
Mar 4 1983

Dr. R. K. Smiley

Head, Department of Medicine, Ottawa General Hospital. Chief of Faculty of Medicine, Ottawa University
15273
May 29 1991

Dr. Paul D. Stolley

Chairman & Professor, Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
10172
Jun 18 1948

Dr. Edmond Dube

Deans of Medicine of Canadian Universities. For Charles E. Frosst Company
11993
May 14 1961

Dr. Horace W. Magoun

Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of California Medical Center
12860
May 13 1968

W. Eugene Stern M.D.

Chief of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, University of California
13503
Aug 4 1973

Dr. George Widmer Thorn

Director of Medical Research, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard School of Medicine
13516
Sep 10 1973

Dr. William A. Cochrane

Deputy Minister of Health Services, Province of Alberta
Taken at request of University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine
13676
Jan 18 1975

Dr. Henry K. Beecher

(Anaesthesia)
Photographed at Countway Library of Medicine for Portfolio II of "Healers of Our Age"
13700
May 6 1975

Ronald K. Tompkins M.D.

Associate Professor of Surgery, School of Medicine, The Center for the Health Sciences, University of California
13884
Feb 19 1977

Dr. Owsei Temkin

Professor Emeritus of the History of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Hospital and University
14132
Apr 21 1979

Dr. Howard Rusk

Institute of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, New York University Medical Center
14414
Oct 15 1982

Dr. Stanley B. Troup

Professor of Medicine, Health Care and Human Values, University of Cincinnati Medical Center
14495
Nov 21 1983

Dr. Jonathan Rhoads

School of Medicine, Dept. of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania
14731
Nov 22 1985

Dr. Laurence Earley

Chairman, Dept. of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Hospital
14819
Sep 17 1986

Dr. Samuel P. Martin

Professor of Internal Medicine Emeritus. Director, Clinical Scholars Program
14995
Jul 25 1988

Dr. Baruj Benacerraf

Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Nobel prize winner in 1980 for Physiology or Medicine
15257
Mar 22 1991

Dr. Leonard D. Miller

School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania

Photographs

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  • Sir Alexander Fleming

  • Early Landscape

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Legacy

Dr. Victor McKusick

Victor A. McKusick, 1977 by Yousuf Karsh Our colleagues at the National Library of Medicine have this photograph of Victor McKusick in their archives, and recently referred The Jackson Laboratory… […]

Alexander Fleming

…the world of medicine, including several Nobel Prize winners. All 15,000+ sittings are searchable on this website. Or search on a keyword such as “medicine” and see who you find!… […]

Alexander Fleming

…the world of medicine, including several Nobel Prize winners. All 15,000+ sittings are searchable on this website. Or search on a keyword such as “medicine” and see who you find!… […]

The Art of Healing

…program in Boston shows medicine is an art as much as a science. It teaches physicians in training to use their eyes and ears to connect with patients and enhance… […]

Lyndon B. Johnson

…the elderly would someday affect everyone, supporters of health care reform were able to avoid the worst fears of “socialized medicine,” which was considered a dirty word for its association… […]

Megerditch Tarakdjian

…Aleppo, and although ultimately he chose to pursue a career in medicine in Canada, his devotion to art did not fade. “Despite being a self-taught artist, Tarakdjian has acquired great… […]

Dr. Henry K. Beecher

…in the New England Journal of Medicine – “Ethics and Clinical Research” – was instrumental in the implementation of federal rules on human experimentation and informed consent. This image will… […]

“American Portraits” Final Weeks in Ohio

…collection of more than 100 portraits, this exhibition features iconic photographs of Americans who have distinguished themselves in fields as diverse as business, medicine, entertainment, politics and the arts. Among… […]

Colonel John Glenn

…orbit the Earth. In 1995, Glenn was reading Space Physiology and Medicine, a book written by NASA doctors. He realized that many changes that occur to physical attributes during space… […]

Baruj Benacerraf

Dr. Baruj Benacerraf, 1988 Baruj Benacerraf was born on this day, October 29, in 1920. He was a Venezuelan-American immunologist, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine […]

Estrellita Karsh

…– whether to Zululand, to Japan, to Russia, to Finland, to Scandinavia, to Egypt – we have pursued our joint interests in archaeology, in art, in medicine. She has continued… […]

American College of Cardiology

…talk or attend school was not a relevant profession in the first half of the 20th century. In the male-dominated field of medicine, caring for these children who were certain… […]

Cornell Capa

…Karsh, Capa had intended to study medicine; instead he joined his brother, Robert Capa, in pursuing photography. Other photographers who sat for Karsh include Harold Edgerton, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Ansel… […]

Smithsonian Institution

…Karsh: American Portraits.” The exhibition featured “iconic photographs of Americans who have distinguished themselves in fields as diverse as business, medicine, entertainment, politics, and the arts. Among the portraits to… […]

Muhammad Ali

…stares of the passers-by as they made their way up Madison Avenue. ‘The Greatest’ and I talked about his triumphs, about patent medicine, about the commercials he was making, but… […]

Jonas Salk

…of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. It was there that he undertook a project to determine the number of different types of poliovirus, starting in 1948. For the next… […]

Sir Alexander Fleming

…discovery, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain. This portrait has been newly added to the website. It was… […]

Baruj Benacerraf

Dr. Baruj Benacerraf, 1988 Baruj Benacerraf (1920-2011) was a Venezuelan-American immunologist, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the “discovery of the major histocompatibility complex genes… […]

Estrellita Karsh

…to Russia, to Finland, to Scandinavia, to Egypt – we have pursued our joint interests in archaeology, in art, in medicine. She has continued to write articles on medical history…. […]

Michael DeBakey

…Baylor College of Medicine at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. His career spanned nearly eight decades. He was born on this day, September 7, in 1908 (d. 2008)… […]

Estrellita Karsh

…to Russia, to Finland, to Scandinavia, to Egypt – we have pursued our joint interests in archaeology, in art, in medicine. She has continued to write articles on medical history…. […]

Exhibitions

General

A Brief Biography

…for Uncle Nakash at his studio, burying my original desire to study medicine. While at first I did not realize it, everything connected with the art of photography captivated my…

Legacy

…he would meet Estrellita Nachbar, a medical writer, editor, and his wife-to-be. Together, the Karshes would invest in activities that marry the fields of art and medicine, as well as…

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