George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist.

During photography’s early days in the mid-nineteenth century, the photographic portrait was expected to convey neutrality. But Marcel Sternberger, the leading portrait photographer of his generation, who photographed some of the most celebrated icons of the 1930s to 1950s, used psychological techniques to create a photograph representative of his subject’s inner state. Though Sternberger has since faded into obscurity, many of his portraits have not.

1943 © Yousuf Karsh

George Bernard Shaw on Censorship

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1925 was awarded to George Bernard Shaw "for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty"

This photo was taken in 1933. I'll bet his "Smith Premier" typewriter was top-of-the-line technology equivalent at the time to today's finest computers. Photo credit Alfred Eisenstadt, via (OVO)

by Alfred Eisenstaedt bromide print 1932 Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt. ©The LIFE Picture Collection.

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) is an Irish-born British dramatist, considered by many to be the most notable dramatist since William Shake...

563 askART auction records for the artist: John (Sir John) Lavery. John (Sir John) Lavery (1856 - 1941) was active/lived in United Kingdom, Ireland, Scotland, England. 0 of 563 auction records are upcoming at auction.