Marilyn Horne
Horne is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer.
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John Foster Dulles
Dulles was an American diplomat, lawyer, and Republican Party politician.
Bertrand Russell
Russell was born today, May 18, in 1872.
Lysle Courtenay
Courtenay was an actor, and set dresser and designer for the Ottawa Little Theater.
Agnes Macphail
Macphail was the first woman elected to the Canadian House of Commons.
Douglas Cardinal
The esteemed Canadian architect was photographed by Karsh in 1989.
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Rockefeller Jr. was an American financier and philanthropist.
Dr. Carl Jung
Dr. Jung was photographed on this day, May 9, in 1958.
Dominion Drama Festival
Karsh was the photographer for the Dominion Drama Festival.
Anouk Aimée
Aimée is a French film actress, who has appeared in 70 films since 1947.
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
Vieira da Silva was a Portuguese abstract painter.
International Workers’ Day
In 1952, Karsh accepted a lengthy assignment from “Maclean’s” magazine to document Canada’s postwar economic development.
Billie Jean King
King was photographed on this day, April 28, in 1991.
I. M. Pei
Ieoh Ming Pei was born on this day, April 26, in 1917.
Dr. Gerhard Herzberg
Herzberg was a German-Canadian pioneering physicist and physical chemist, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
Joan Miró
Miró was born on this day, April 20, in 1893.
Pierre Soulages
In April, 1965, Karsh took a trip to France.
Kurt Vonnegut
Vonnegut was an American writer and humorist known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels.
Ravi Shankar
The sitarist and composer was born on this day, April 7, in 1920.
Cesar Chavez
Fabulous to see Karsh’s color portrait of Chavez used to illustrate an article in National Geographic online.
Krishnamurti
Krishnamurti was a was a philosopher, speaker and writer.
Princess Juliana
Juliana was Queen of the Netherlands from 1948 until her abdication in 1980.
Yukio Ozaki
The National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C. commemorates the 1912 gift to the city of 3,000 cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo.
James Callaghan
Callaghan was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979.
Alain Delon
The French actor and singer was photographed on March 23, in 1981.
Marcel Marceau
This year marks the centenary of Marceau’s birth.
Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”
Joanna and Edward Steichen
An inquiry came in about this photograph of the Steichens rowing near their home in Connecticut.
Albert Einstein
Einstein was born on March 14, in 1879.
Jonas Salk
Dr. Salk was photographed at the University of Pittsburgh, Municipal Hospital.
Helen Keller
Helen Keller was photographed on this day, March 8, in 1948.
Herman Leonard
Today marks the centenary of the birth of photographer Herman Leonard.
Kurt Weill
Weill was born on this day, March 2, in 1900.
Tom Clark
Clark was an American lawyer who served as United States Attorney General and as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
RTÉ Archives
Irish national television and radio broadcaster RTÉ has an interview with Karsh available online.
Kim Novak
The American actor is 90 years young today.
Edwin Land
There is a wonderful Instagram page devoted to portraits of photographers by photographers.
King George VI
On February 6, in 1952, Britain’s King George VI died and his eldest daughter became Queen.
Jascha Heifetz
“We might as well take our fiddles and break them across our knees.”
Jackie Robinson
Robinson is legendary in the United States for being the first African American to play in Major League Baseball.