Portraits
Princess Elizabeth
Sir Cecil Beaton (1904-1980)
1946
British photographer Cecil Beaton is best known for portraiture and fashion photography – he shot for Vanity Fair and Vogue in the 1920s and 1930s.
Beaton captured many portraits of The Royal Family, including this lovely portrait of Princess Elizabeth at the age of 20.
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
Boris Spremo/Toronto Star
Feb 19, 1980
Pierre Trudeau playfully flicks an elastic band the day after winning a federal election in 1980.
Renowned Toronto Star photojournalist Boris Spremo won an Ohio News Photographers Association Picture of the Year Award for this image.
John Diefenbaker
Boris Spremo/Toronto Star
1977
This silhouette of former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, working on his memoires in the Barbados, earned Boris Spremo a National Newspaper Award.
Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King
Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002)
c. 1940
Armenian-Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh is widely regarded as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the twentieth century.
This signed portrait of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King is one of several Karsh portraits in the Toronto Star Photograph Archive.
Oscar Peterson, 1971
Dick Darrell/Toronto Star
January 11, 1971
Award-winning Toronto Star photographer Dick Darrell captured Oscar Peterson entertaining at the Town Tavern in Toronto.
Peterson is considered one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time.
Elvis Presley
Leo Harrison/Toronto Star
April 2, 1957
Toronto Daliy Star
April 3, 1957
Elvis Presley performs at Maple Leaf Gardens in 1957 during his first visit to Canada. Over 23,000 screaming fans watched the concert.
Mother Teresa
Bob Olsen/Toronto Star
December 1979
Mother Teresa, founder of the Missionaries of Charity, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
That same year Toronto Star photographer Bob Olsen won the Mongolian Press Association Award of Merit for this portrait of Mother Teresa praying in Calcutta.
Marshall McLuhan
Unknown Photographer
c. 1967
Marshall McLuhan reads in his office at St. Michael's College, University of Toronto.
The world-renowned Canadian communications theorist is famous for his dictum “the medium is the message.”
John Lennon and Yoko Ono in Toronto
Fred Ross/Toronto Star
May 26, 1969
Toronto Star photographer Fred Ross captured this shot of John Lennon and Yoko Ono as they spent a night at the King Edward Sheraton Hotel in Toronto.
Twiggy (Leslie Hornby) in Toronto
Bob Olsen/Toronto Star
August 25, 1967
Toronto Daily Star
August 26, 1967
British fashion model Twiggy nibbles on her necklace at a press conference in the Royal York Hotel. She was in Toronto for a fashion show at Eaton's.
Salvador Dali
Philippe Halsman (b. 1906 - 1979)
c. 1946
Between the 1940s and 1970s, Latvian-American photographer Philippe Halsman’s portraits of celebrities, intellectuals and politicians graced the covers of LIFE.
This photo of Salvador Dali waiting for inspiration is one of three Halsman portraits of the surrealist artist in the Toronto Star Photograph Archive.