Marian Anderson
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None of Karsh's early exposures of Marian Anderson satisfied him when he visited her Connecticut home in 1945. Near the end of the session he whispered to her accompanist to play one of her favorite pieces very softly, and as the contralto began to hum along, unaware, he made this picture. Karsh called the result a harmonious soul revealing itself in song.
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