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Yousuf Karsh Madame Chiang Kai-shek 1943 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Yousuf Karsh Dorothy Liebes 1945 gelatin silver print Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York |
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Yousuf Karsh Ingrid Bergman 1946 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Yousuf Karsh Self Portrait ca. 1946 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Yousuf Karsh Joan Crawford 1948 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Yousuf Karsh Martha Graham 1948 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Yousuf Karsh Elizabeth Arden 1948 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Yousuf Karsh Grace Kelly 1956 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Yousuf Karsh Georgia O'Keeffe 1956 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Yousuf Karsh Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy 1957 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Yousuf Karsh Sculptor David Hostetler photographed by Yousuf Karsh ca. 1965 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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Yousuf Karsh Josef Albers 1966 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Yousuf Karsh Joanna and Edward Steichen 1967 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Yousuf Karsh W.H. Auden 1972 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Yousuf Karsh I.M. Pei 1979 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Yousuf Karsh Katharine Graham 1990 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Yousuf Karsh Helen Frankenthaler 1991 C-print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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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)