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
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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