Sunday, August 24, 2025

Yousuf Karsh

Yousuf Karsh
Madame Chiang Kai-shek
1943
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC


Yousuf Karsh
Dorothy Liebes
1945
gelatin silver print
Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum,
New York

Yousuf Karsh
Ingrid Bergman
1946
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Yousuf Karsh
Self Portrait
ca. 1946
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Yousuf Karsh
Joan Crawford
1948
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Yousuf Karsh
Martha Graham
1948
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Yousuf Karsh
Elizabeth Arden
1948
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Yousuf Karsh
Grace Kelly
1956
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Yousuf Karsh
Georgia O'Keeffe
1956
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Yousuf Karsh
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
1957
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Yousuf Karsh
Sculptor David Hostetler photographed by Yousuf Karsh
ca. 1965
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Yousuf Karsh
Josef Albers
1966
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Yousuf Karsh
Joanna and Edward Steichen
1967
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Yousuf Karsh
W.H. Auden
1972
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Yousuf Karsh
I.M. Pei
1979
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Yousuf Karsh
Katharine Graham
1990
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Yousuf Karsh
Helen Frankenthaler
1991
C-print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Yousuf Karsh
Geoffrey Beene
1991
C-print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

from Metamorphoses  

[Medea concocts a potion to rejuvenate Aeson]
 
    Apointed in the newe Mone,
Whan it was time forto done,
Sche sette a caldron on the fyr,
In which was al the hole atir,
Wheron the medicine stod,
Of jus, of water and of blod,
And let it buile in such a plit,
Til that sche sawh the spume whyt;
And tho sche caste in rynde and rote,
And sed and flour that was for bote,
With many an herbe and many a ston,
Whereof sche hath ther many on:
And ek Cimpheius the Serpent
To hire hath alle his scales lent,
Chelidre hire yaf his addres skin,
And sche to builen caste hem in.

– Ovid (43 BC-AD 17), translated by John Gower (ca. 1400)