Yousuf Karsh's Portraits in Boston

Estrellita Karsh, 1963
"It was a congenial medical office - one that always made me think of my original desire to be a physician - which provided the setting for Estrellita Nachbar, the gifted medical writer and historian who was to become my wife. I was in Chicago photographing her employer and mentor; one of America's most distinguished physicians, Dr. Walter C. Alvarez. Estrellita had been Dr. Alvarez's editor for some years, using her extensive literary and medical background to make difficult scientific concepts exciting and readable to the layman, and collaborating with the doctor on his current best sellers. As Newsweek whimsically put it when reporting on our marriage in 1962, "Something else clicked beside the shutter."

• Yousuf Karsh at the MFA in Boston: September 23, 2008 thru January 19, 2009