Hugh Hefner, Chicago Playboy Mansion, March 10, 1970, 12" x 10" Original Photograph by Yousuf Karsh. PSA/DNA Type 1. ...

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Hugh Hefner, Chicago Playboy Mansion, March 10, 1970, 12" x 10" Original Photograph by Yousuf Karsh. PSA/DNA Type 1. Vintage gelatin silver semi-gloss borderless double-weight 12" x 10" photograph of Hugh Hefner in his study, Chicago Playboy Mansion, March 10, 1970, by Yousuf Karsh, with Camera Press Ltd. wet stamp and paper caption KARSH PORTRAYS THE PLAYBOY KING / Portrait study by KARSH of OTTAWA on the verso. Karsh, whose portraits of statesmen and artists defined 20th-century portraiture, here fixed his lens on Hefner at 43, as a symbol of changing sexual and social mores, a telling inclusion in his gallery of the century's icons. Comes with an LOA from PSA/DNA.

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