The iconic photographs of Yousef Karsh

Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and the Boston Public Library have featured Karsh’s work in recent years, but when it came to choosing a permanent home for nearly 30 original portraits, Karsh’s widow chose to donate them to the Armenian Library and Museum of America in Watertown for its permanent collection. Karsh took this photograph of a stoic Ernest Hemingway in 1957.
Courtesy of Estrellita Karsh and the Armenian Library and Museum of America

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By Erica Noonan and Dan Adams
Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and the Boston Public Library have featured Karsh’s work in recent years, but when it came to choosing a permanent home for nearly 30 original portraits, Karsh’s widow chose to donate them to the Armenian Library and Museum of America in Watertown for its permanent collection.

Karsh took this photograph of a stoic Ernest Hemingway in 1957.