Helen Keller
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Helen Keller with Polly Thomson, 1948
Keller, deaf and blind since she was a baby, greeted Karsh by placing her fingers on his face, while her longtime companion Polly Thomson spelled his words into her palm. Karsh made the double portrait about that partnership: Thomson leans in smiling behind Keller, and their hands meet above a thick book, the way the two women talked.
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