Karsh Signature

Yousuf Karsh, master photographer of the 20th century

Sittings

Every sitting was recorded on a card file by the Karsh studio. The cards have been transcribed and are searchable here. Some personal data has been excluded, some information corrected, and some standardizations have been made to make searching simpler, but otherwise the information you see is largely how it was originally typed. Browse or search below by name, and choose to order the sittings by number, date or name.

BY NUMBER NAME DATE

Sittings by Sitter's Name

sitting #
date
Name
Role, Location, Notes
12912
Aug 9 1968

Mr. Ferguson

President, Northwestern Mutual Life Ins. Co.
10412
Jan 6 1950

Hugh J. Ferry Esq.

President, Packard Motor Car Company
For Esquire Magazine
13807
Apr 15 1976

Arthur Fiedler

Conductor, Boston “Pops” Orchestra
For Polaroid using the new 8x10 camera (direct film) (The first person to be photographed with 8x10) He also took some photographs with the 20x24 Polariod of Dr. Killian and Mr. McKeown during the same visit to Boston
14169
Jul 20 1979

Jerry Fielder

YK’s ssistant
Photographed at Prime Minister’s Office as a test for photography of Prime Minister Clark
14893
Jul 7 1987

Jerry Fielder

Taken at Public Archives Canada at the time of photography of Dr. Jean-Pierre Wallot, Dominion Archivist
14904
Aug 19 1987

Jerry Fielder

Tests taken in Ottawa studio and 6th Floor hallway, Chateau Laurier. At new National Gallery, 1988
12176
Dec 18 1962

Lee H. Finlay

Robert Woods Johnson Co. “Man of the Year”
13718
Aug 14 1975

Mr. J. F. Finlayson

Deputy Chairman & Vice President, The Royal Bank of Canada. Also photographed with Mr. J. F. Finlayson
10522
Nov 3 1950

Thomas K. Finletter

Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C.
For Parade Magazine, through PIX
12347
Feb 2 1964

Morris Fishbein

Editor, Medical World News
Through Rapho Guillumette Pictures
14368
Jan 5 1982

Mr. David Fisher

Special Assistant to the President, Washington, D.C.
Photographed as stand-in
10304
Apr 12 1949

Edmund Fitzgerald Esq.

President, Northwestern Mutual Life Ins. Co.
For J. Walter Thompson Chicago
11869
Feb 23 1960

Horace C. Flanigan

Chairman of the Board, Manufacturers Trust
Through PIX Publishing
12891
Jul 22 1968

Mr. Joseph Flavin Jr.

Vice President, Finance, XEROX Corporation
Northwestern Mutual sitting
8626
Jan 18 1943

Mrs. Julius Fleischmann

United States Legation Red Cross group. Mrs. Julius Fleischmann, Mrs. Russell B. Jordan, Mrs. F. J. Graling, Mrs. Clifford C. Taylor
9718
Feb 18 1946

Mr. Henry Ford II

Ford Motor Company
For LIFE Magazine Captains of Industry
11989
Sep 5 1961

M. M. Foss

Senior Vice President Directing Production, Sun Ray Mid Continent Oil
13636
Sep 16 1974

Mr. Lewis Foy

Chairman of the Board, Bethlehem Steel Corporation
10573
Jan 30 1951

Clarence Francis Esq.

Chairman of the Board, General Foods Corporations
Through PIX Publishing. General Foods
10183
Jul 14 1948

W. S. Freeman Esq.

President & General Manager, H. Barnard Stamp & Stencil Co. Ltd.
13958
Oct 13 1977

Dr. A. James French

Chairman, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School
10185
Jul 24 1948

R. Frith Esq.

Study of hands for the Dept. of National Health & Welfare, Publicity Division. For John Crabtree Esq.
11394
Aug 17 1956

Hayes M. Fuhr

Director of Music, Hastings College Conservatory, Hastings, Nebraska
10679
Nov 28 1951

A. C. Fuller Esq.

Chairman of the Board, The Fuller Brush Company
Through PIX Publishing
10680
Nov 29 1951

Award Fuller Esq.

Vice President & General Manager, The Fuller Brush Company
13115
Jan 23 1970

Carlton P. Fuller

Chairman of the Board of Trustees, The Museum of Science, Boston
15297
Mar 31 1992

Mr. Mark Fuller

Head of Operations, Loch March Golf & Country Club
12448
Sep 1 1964

Dr. Richard Fuller

Museum Director, Seattle Art Museum
Ivan Dmitri, ''Photography in the Fine Arts.''
12730
Mar 7 1967

Mr. A. M. Fulton

Principal, Northumberland Secondary School, Brighton, Ontario
9511
Apr 1 1945

Mr. Hugh Fulton

Chief Counsel, The Truman Committee, Washington, D.C.
For LIFE Magazine
10564
Jan 19 1951

Curtis H. Gager Esq.

Vice President & Director, General Foods Corp.
Through PIX Publishing. General Foods
13639
Sep 18 1974

Dr. Edward A. Gall

Retiring Vice President & Director of the Medical Center, University of Cincinnati
9361
Oct 28 1944

Dr. W. E. Gallie

Professor of Surgery, Toronto University. President, Royal College of Surgeons. Past Pres, American College of Surgeons
14570
Jul 1 1983

Garcia

Makeup Artist. With Antonio da Costa, taken with Mme. Charron in New York at the time of the Town & Country sittings photographing Canadian women
13952
Jul 1 1977

Miguel Garcia

Dancer
For National Ballet of Canada project
13952
Jul 8 1977

Miguel Garcia

Nadia Potts and James Kudelka. Dancers
For National Ballet of Canada project
6568
Aug 13 1940

Garden Party

Lindenelm, Home of Mrs. Wilson Southam
11770
Mar 9 1959

B. C. Gardner

President, The Bank of Montreal
Taken during Montreal series for Maclean’s
6400
May 29 1940

John Garo

With Solange & Yousuf Karsh in Boston
10888
Aug 1 1949

John Garo

YK with John Garo and YK in Turban
Glass negatives
13517
Sep 11 1973

Mr. Jean Gascon

Founder of Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Photographed with Mr. Tom Patterson and Mr. William Hutt at the Theatre, Stratford, Ontario
10609
May 14 1951

D. C. Gaskin Esq.

Vice President & General Manager, Studebaker Corp. of Canada
14589
Sep 11 1984

Professor Murray Gell-Mann

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. Nobel Prize winner in Physics for Quark, 1969
15029
Dec 1 1983

Gerald Ford Museum

Taken at opening of Gerald Ford Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Ford’s son and grandson among photographs
13893
Dec 14 1977

Mr. Elbridge T. Gerry

Union Pacific Corporation. Mr. William Cook with Mr. James H. Evans (Chairman of the Board), Mr. Elbridge T. Gerry (Chairman of the Executive Committee)
13983
Dec 14 1977

Mr. Elbridge Gerry

Union Pacific Corporation. Mr. William Cook with Mr. James H. Evans (Chairman of the Board), Mr. Elbridge T. Gerry (Chairman of the Executive Committee)
9645
Nov 15 1945

Mr. Walter Gifford

President, American Telephone & Telegraph, AT&T
For LIFE Magazine Captains of Industry
11937
Nov 3 1960

Mr. James P. Gill

President, Vanadium Alloys Steel
Northwestern Mutual sitting
15209
Sep 10 1990

Dizzy Gillespie

For “American Legends” series East/West Network
9849
Nov 21 1946

Miss Gilman

A. J. Freiman Ltd. Fashion Models
9851
Nov 29 1946

Miss Gilmour

A. J. Freiman Ltd. Fashion Models
14032
Aug 24 1978

Mr. Roland Giroux

Ex president, Hydro Quebec now on Board of Directors
For Hydro Quebec
13211
Nov 18 1970

Dr. Donald Glaser

Department of Molecular Biology, University of California
15146
Jan 30 1990

Milton Glaser

For “American Legends” series East/West Network
12428
Sep 8 1964

Mr. L. E. Glasgow

President, Central Airlines
American Airlines Sitting
15165
Mar 5 1990

Philip Glass

For “American Legends” series East/West Network
6388
May 18 1940

Mr. Glen

Speaker of the House of Commons
8058
May 15 1942

Mr. Glen

Speaker of the House of Commons. With page boys Laurent Seguin, Jean Claude Rodier, Walter Milne, Jean Burke
13369
Apr 10 1972

David Goddard

Provost, The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
13438
Feb 7 1973

Mr. Stanley Goldblum

President & Chairman of the Board, Equity Funding Corporation of America
15041
Jan 1 1987

Henry Goldstein

Former Manager of Regency Hyatt Hotel. With Mr.Karsh
12042
Nov 3 1961

Foster Goodrich

Stanley Home Products
Through Ruder and Finn Agency
15189
May 30 1990

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

President, USSR (Secretary General of the Soviet Communist Party and Chairman of the Supreme Soviet) Photographed at Government House, Ottawa
15025
Nov 8 1988

Mr. Fred Gorbet

Deputy Minister, Department of Finance, Ottawa
9339
Oct 16 1944

Elizabeth Gordon

Editor, House Beautiful. (Mrs. Carl Norcross)
For House Beautiful Magazine
15022
Nov 5 1988

Myron Gottlieb

Photographed with Nat Taylor and Garth Drabinsky, Cineplex Odeon Corporation
7914
Mar 24 1942

Mr. Paul Goulet

Assistant Director of National Selective Service
9649
Nov 20 1945

Mr. Eugene Grace

President, Bethlehem Steel
For LIFE Magazine Captains of Industry
11652
Jun 2 1958

Clive Graham

and Peter O’Sullavan
For Daily Express
8783
Apr 12 1943

Mr. Stuart Graham

Superintendent of Air Regulations, Dept. of Transport
8626
Jan 18 1943

Mrs. F. J. Graling

United States Legation Red Cross group. Mrs. Julius Fleischmann, Mrs. Russell B. Jordan, Mrs. F. J. Graling, Mrs. Clifford C. Taylor
13935
Jul 1 1977

Alexander Grant

Artistic Director
For National Ballet of Canada project
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
13875
Feb 9 1977

Mr. Ken Grant

CFRA Radio Station
Photographed for Ottawa Shrine Club
SHOW 40 100 500 1000
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