Includes portraits of statesmen, artists, musicians, authors, scientists, and men and women of accomplishment. This title presents the viewer with an intimate and compassionate view of humanity.[...]
When President Calvin Coolidge was asked to choose between the artist John Singer Sargent or the photographer John Garo to make his official presidential portrait, Coolidge chose Garo. Although unknown today, in the early years of the twentieth century, Garo was a nationally acclaimed photographer, [...]