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Sep 5 1980
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.
Sittings by Sitting Date
sitting #
date
Name
Role, Location, Notes
14265
Oct 10 1980
Dr. Ben Peckham
Chairman, Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Wisconsin Hospital
14272
Nov 6 1980
Mr. Kenneth Robert MacGregor
Chairman of the Board, The Mutual Life Assurance Co. of Canada
14288
Feb 9 1981
Mr. & Mrs Kenneth Taylor
Canadian Consulate General. Some of Mr. Taylor alone, some with son Douglas
For Avenue Magazine
14310
Mar 24 1981
Jacques Henri Lartigue
Photographer
Guest at Roger Therond’s home when YK visited during trip to Paris March 1981
14302
Apr 8 1981
Frank J. Sellers M.D.
Professor and head of Pediatric Cardiology, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario
14306
Apr 20 1981
Dr. Elkan R. Blout
Dean of Administration, School of Public Health, Harvard University
14307
May 1 1981
Mr. Donald P. Houston
President and General Manager, Chesebrough Ponds (Canada) Inc.
14322
Jul 20 1981
Mr. Leo Kolber
President CEMP Investments (Charles/Edgar/Minda/Philip Bronfman private investment company)
14360
Nov 1 1981
Jo Tartt
Tests taken by Mr. Karsh using Olympus Camera at White House, Washington. Photographs of White House, Estrellita Karsh, Jo Tartt
14360
Nov 1 1981
White House
Tests taken by Mr. Karsh using Olympus Camera at White House, Washington. Photographs of White House, Estrellita Karsh, Jo Tartt
14344
Nov 12 1981
Robert Hubbard
Cultural Advisor to the Governor General. Government House, Rideau Hall
14347
Nov 19 1981
Mr. John F. Hennessy
Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer, Syska & Hennessy, Inc.
14359
Dec 1 1981
Estrellita Karsh
Photographs of sculpture by Manzu of Estrellita Karsh
For use in catalogue raisonné of Manzu’s work
14356
Dec 10 1981
Mr. James R. Taylor
President, Carling O’Keefe. Retiring Chairman of Brewers Association of Canada
For Brewers Association of Canada
14585
Jan 1 1982
Yousuf Karsh
Copy negative of photograph taken of
Mr. Karsh at Nepean Point, Ottawa. Used in book “Karsh: A Fifty-Year Retrospective” Photograph arranged by YK and taken by Greg Lorfing
14368
Jan 5 1982
14390
Mar 1 1982
Gregory Lorfing
Assistant to Mr. Karsh. Tests made at the studio of strobe equipment
14379
Mar 12 1982
Robert A. Bandeen
Chairman & President, Crown Life Insurance Co.
For Concordia University, for Montreal Business Report magazine
14419
Mar 18 1982
Yousuf Karsh
With students of photography from Ryerson Institute, Toronto, visiting Mr. Karsh (taken by assistant Gregory Lorfing)
14380
Mar 30 1982
James Earl Jones
Dual sitting with Christopher Plummer. In costumes for Othello and Iago parts
For LIFE Magazine
14380
Mar 30 1982
Christopher Plummer
Dual sitting with James Earl Jones. In costumes for Othello and Iago parts
For LIFE Magazine
14386
Jun 10 1982
Medea
Actresses from the play. Judith Anderson and Zoe Caldwell in costume for parts in Medea. photographed together and individually
For LIFE Magazine
14386
Jun 10 1982
14386
Jun 10 1982
14398
Jul 1 1982
Yousuf Karsh
Candid photographs taken during trip to France and Italy, with Jerry Fielder
14397
Aug 1 1982
Yousuf Karsh
Summer 1982. Miscellaneous - tests with Olympus camera. Mr. Karsh, Mrs. Karsh, Greg Lorfing and Mary Alderman in various photographs
14394
Aug 19 1982
Dr. Joab Thomas
President, University of Alabama (Former president of North Carolina State University)
For North Carolina State University
14375
Aug 21 1982
Yousuf Karsh
With students in photography from Lansing Community College. Taken by assistant Gregory Lorfing. (one photograph of YK and Mary Alderman among photographs)
14401
Sep 8 1982
Mr. Gustavo Cisneros
President & Chief Executive Officer, Organizacion Diego Caracas
14407
Oct 3 1982
Christ Church Anglican Cathedral
(special - photographs taken as a gift to church for 150th anniversary) Christ Church Anglican Cathedral (window - Memorial window for 150th anniversary of founding of Parish) Photographs of window and choir
14414
Oct 15 1982
Dr. Stanley B. Troup
Professor of Medicine, Health Care and Human Values, University of Cincinnati Medical Center
14415
Oct 18 1982
Robert Cooper
Personal Photographer for Prime Minister Trudeau
Taken as test before photographing the Prime Minister
14427
Dec 10 1982
Mr. Ian Stewart
Retiring Minister of Finance, Department of Finance, Government of Canada
14569
Jan 1 1983
Karsh
Copy negatives made of three Karsh vintage prints exhibited at National Museum of Photography
14431
Mar 4 1983
Dr. R. K. Smiley
Head, Department of Medicine, Ottawa General Hospital. Chief of Faculty of Medicine, Ottawa University
14448
Apr 15 1983
Reverend Mother Ruth C.H.S.
Foundress, Headmistress, St. Hilda’s and St. Hugh’s School, New York
14449
Apr 22 1983
The Honorable Erik Nielsen
Leader of the Opposition, Conservative Member of Parliament for the Yukon
14456
Jun 13 1983
Mr. Gustave Kirchenberger
Retired chef of Green Valley Restaurant but still Vice President and a Director of the company
14461
Jun 28 1983
William G. Anlyan M.D.
Chancellor for Health Affairs, Duke University Medical Center
14570
Jul 1 1983
Antonio da Costa
Hairstylist. With Mr. Garcia, taken with Mme. Charron in New York at the time of the Town & Country sittings photographing Canadian women
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
14570
Jul 1 1983
Madame Charron
With Antonio da Costa, and Mr Garcia taken in New York at the time of the Town & Country sittings photographing Canadian women
14479
Aug 30 1983
Mr. Bernard J. O'Keefe
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, EG&G Inc.
14481
Aug 30 1983
Dr. Brooke Roberts
Chairman, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Hospital
14484
Sep 1 1983
Mr. Louis T. Hagopian
Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer, N.W. Ayer ABH International
14489
Sep 1 1983
Yousuf Karsh
Copy negative of photograph in book “Karsh: A Fifty-Year Retrospective” - riding on back of donkey on location in Morocco
14495
Nov 21 1983
Dr. Jonathan Rhoads
School of Medicine, Dept. of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania
15029
Dec 1 1983
Gerald Ford Museum
Taken at opening of Gerald Ford Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Ford’s son and grandson among photographs
14506
Dec 8 1983
Mr. Stephen Roman
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Denison Mines Limited
14625
Jan 1 1984
Yousuf Karsh
Copy negatives made in 1984 of photographs in WISDOM magazine of Karsh with Winston Churchill; Field Marshall Montgomery; August John
14540
Feb 16 1984
Rush
Music Group. Gary Lee Weinrib “Geddy Lee”; Alexander Zicojinovich “Alex Lifeson”; Neil Peart
14548
Apr 11 1984
Mr. James T. Black
Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer, The Molson Companies Ltd.
14558
May 9 1984
Dr. Alexander Gardner Watson
Head, Department of Ophthalmology, Ottawa General Hospital
14613
May 28 1984
John Miller
Polaroids only, in colour, taken as tests when Mr. Karsh photographed John Updike, Ken Kesey and Jayne Anne Phillips for Esquire Magazine
14589
Sep 11 1984
Professor Murray Gell-Mann
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. Nobel Prize winner in Physics for Quark, 1969
14590
Sep 12 1984
Laurel Cutler
Executive Vice President, Marketing and Planning, Leber Katz Partners
14591
Sep 12 1984
Mr. Stanley Katz
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Leber Katz Partners
14602
Sep 21 1984
The Honorable Claude Denson Pepper
United States Senator from Florida. Select Committee on Aging
14608
Oct 1 1984
Yousuf Karsh
Photographs taken of Mr. Karsh by Jerry Fielder when Mr. Karsh was addressing IBM Executives in Zurich Switzerland
14621
Dec 19 1984
Mr. Donald H. Richardson
For the Ottawa Carleton Regional Residential Treatment Centre
14638
Jan 1 1985
Yousuf Karsh
and Hal Ungar (assistant) Tests taken at Chateau Laurier Hotel. YK at piano
14645
Mar 19 1985
Mr. John D. Feehan
Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Office, Atlantic City Electric
14654
May 7 1985
Charles Templeton
One of group of writers photographed together for Apple Canada, Inc. Including Charles Templeton, Ben Wicks, Harold Towne, Veronica Tennant, Margaret Atwood
14654
May 7 1985
Margaret Atwood
One of group of writers photographed together for Apple Canada, Inc. Including Charles Templeton, Ben Wicks, Harold Towne, Veronica Tennant, Margaret Atwood
14654
May 7 1985
Ben Wicks
One of group of writers photographed together for Apple Canada, Inc. Including Charles Templeton, Ben Wicks, Harold Towne, Veronica Tennant, Margaret Atwood
14654
May 7 1985
Mr. Jack McClelland
One of group photographed together for Apple Canada, Inc. Including Charles Templeton, Ben Wicks, Harold Towne, Veronica Tennant, Margaret Atwood
14654
May 7 1985
Veronica Tennant
One of group photographed together for Apple Canada, Inc. Including Charles Templeton, Ben Wicks, Harold Towne, Veronica Tennant, Margaret Atwood
14654
May 7 1985
Mr. Harold Town
One of group photographed together for Apple Canada, Inc. Including Charles Templeton, Ben Wicks, Harold Towne, Veronica Tennant, Margaret Atwood
14672
Jun 28 1985
Mr. John V. Branch
President, Nexa Corporation. With group of three Nexa executives together including Mr. John Allen, Mr. David Burden, Mr. John Branch
14715
Jul 30 1985
Yousuf Karsh
Photographs taken by Mr. John Allen of Nexa Corp. at the time he was being photographed by Mr. Karsh
14691
Aug 1 1985
Mr. Kiyoshi Ike
Syracuse Museum of Art. One photograph taken as test at same time as Ronald Kuchta, Director of Syracuse Museum of Art was photographed.
14694
Sep 4 1985
Mr. John V. Branch
Nexa Corporation. With group of three Nexa executives together including Mr. John Allen, Mr. David Burden, Mr. John Branch
14724
Nov 16 1985
Mr. Tom Margittai
Co-owner, The Four Seasons Restaurant. Dual sitting with Mr. Paul Kovi
14724
Nov 16 1985
Mr. Paul Kovi
Co-owner, The Four Seasons Restaurant. Dual sitting with Mr. Tom Margittai
14727
Nov 20 1985
Isaac Asimov
For Ogilvy & Mather “Staying Power” Series (for Panhandle Eastern Corp.)
14731
Nov 22 1985
Dr. Laurence Earley
Chairman, Dept. of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Hospital
14733
Dec 11 1985
John Wooden
For Ogilvy & Mather “Staying Power” Series (for Panhandle Eastern Corp.)
14738
Dec 23 1985
Mr. John A. Farquhar
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Encon Insurance Managers Inc.
14740
Jan 3 1986
Mr. Dave Brubeck
For Ogilvy & Mather “Staying Power” Series (for Panhandle Eastern Corp.)