From a renowned portraitist visual biographies of the notables: artists (Villa-Lobos, Ben Shahn, Leger), political figures (L.B. Johnson as Senate Majority leader, John F. Kennedy, the junior Senator from Massachusetts); and the undistinguished (the most affecting photographs here): a village priest, a Florentine cobbler -- shots which succeed in a remarkably innovative way in integrating the subjects with their professional surroundings.