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…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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.”