From the archives at LIFE Magazine. This cover from 1961 features a less well-known color portrait of Ernest Hemingway that Karsh made in 1957 during the same Sitting as the most famous of all Hemingway photographs: the roll-neck sweater.
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Cover: Courtesy LIFE/The Picture Collection, Inc.