Armenian photographer Yousuf Karsh
BY CAROL CLING
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
More stars than there are in heaven.
That’s how MGM — the movie studio, not the Strip megaresort — used to describe its lineup of luminaries during Hollywood’s golden age.
But the motto also applies to the lineup of luminaries now at Bellagio’s Gallery of Fine Arts, which extends beyond reel-life legends (from Humphrey Bogart to Audrey Hepburn) to real-life giants, including heads of state (Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela) and literary lions (Ernest Hemingway, George Bernard Shaw).
To say nothing of scientific genius Albert Einstein. Civil rights crusader Martin Luther King. Artists from Pablo Picasso to Andy Warhol. Singers from Judy Garland to Jessye Norman and dancers from Martha Graham to Rudolf Nureyev. Mother Teresa. The Apollo 11 astronauts.
And one more name to link them all: Yousuf Karsh, the renowned portrait photographer behind “Icons of the 20th Century.â€
