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…
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.”
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…
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.
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…