Muhammed Ali
Brigitte Bardot
George Bernard Shaw
Ingrid Bergman
Humphrey Bogart
Fidel Castro
Winston Churchill
Jacques Cousteau
Joan Crawford
Gerard Depardieu
Albert Einstein
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Margot Fonteyn
Ernest Hemingway
Audrey Hepburn
Alfred Hitchcock
Jacqueline Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Grace Kelly
Martin Luther King
Pablo Picasso
Pope Pius XII
Elizabeth Taylor
Mother Teresa
Andy Warhol
All images by Yousuf Karsh
Blimey, Ingmar Bergman was a good-looking bloke, wasn’t he?
Lol! I was gonna say, I’m pretty sure that portrait is of /Ingrid/ Bergman…
Perfect gallery, however that cannot be Ingmar Bergman (he is male) must be Ingrid
Someone thought Ingrid was Ingmar, yes. A visit from the green fairy on Friday evening or just havin trouble with foreign names?
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Her name was *Ingrid* Bergman. Not related to Ingmar.
These are perfect portraits. I don’t know the art of paying my homage in words. These portraits have left permanent impressions on my mind and I shall see them again and again and admire them from fresh as if I have seen them for the first time.
Really powerful portraits. I love them!
If there’s ever a film about Castro Liam Neeson should definately audition!
Damn, Brigitte Bardot was so beautiful.
Audrey, Grace and Elizabeth, such real beauties. Beauty like that is the thing of the past. I should know, I’m a 21 year old woman who is always pressured to be “beautiful” and in todays society, they obviously dont know what the term means anymore.
Karsh was a fine artist and documenter of his era.
There is something trashy and uncouth about Bardot’s face. And after a bit of aging, she disappeared from the screen and even the magazines.
Bergman aged so brutally that her last role was as Golda Meir.
Crawford looks patrician here, but in fact was born into white trash.
Fonteyn was a truly great and iconic woman deserving of more posthumous fame.
Jacqueline Bouvier’s life was unspeakably tragic.
Most ironic of all was Elizabeth Taylor. She did not age well at all. In fact by 45, she looked like white trash. Worse yet, since her death it has come out that when she lost her temper, as she often did, her mouth turned into a sewer.
Were Cousteau and Marty Feldman twins?
I believe that is Dwight D. Eisenhower, not David Eisenhower.
Ooops, looks like the editor got there as I posted.
Well Tamarra, I don’t know what kind of beautiful you feel pressured to be, but if you looked like Audrey, Grace, or Elizabeth in those pictures, you’d still be beautiful today..lol.
It’s amazing how many of Karsh’s portraits have become “the” iconic images of these individuals.
Certainly a man of remarkable talent.
Brigitte Bardot was smokin’ hot! Yabba Dabba Doo me.
Stunning portraits. It doesn’t get any better than Audrey Hepburn in my opinion. A beautiful and classy woman inside and out.
Gerard Depardieu? Really? Why? He sullies the rest of the list with his awfulness.