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Passport photographs of celebrities - in pictures
The passport photograph is the most universal and democratic form of portraiture ever invented. Everyone has to obey the same rules: eyes forward, no grinning. But, as these passports of the stars reveal, even the brutality of the photo booth cannot dim true glamourMon 29 Jul 2013 15.54 BST First published on Mon 29 Jul 2013 15.54 BST
Marilyn Monroe's passport from 1954 Photograph: Brad Barket/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterMarc Bolan's British passport Photograph: Today/Rex Features
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAudrey Hepburn's passport Photograph: Public Domain
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterMuhammad Ali's US passport Photograph: Public Domain
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterA 1960 passport belonging to Katharine Hepburn Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterPassports issued in the 1950s to John F Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Photograph: Aaron Jackson/AP
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterA passport issued to Johnny Cash in 1968 and used until 1973 Photograph: Shaan Kokin/Julien's Auctions /Rex Features
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAlbert Einstein's Swiss passport Photograph: Jean-Pierre Clatot/AFP/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterVirginia Woolf's passport Photograph: Public Domain
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAlfred Hitchcock's British passport Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterElla Fitzgerald's passport Photograph: Public Domain
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterJanis Joplin's passport issued in 1969 Photograph: Public Domain
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterA passport issued to Roy Harold Fitzgerald, AKA Rock Hudson, from 1952 Photograph: Shaan Kokin/Julien's Auctions /Rex Features
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterMichael Hutchence's Australian passport issued in 1981 Photograph: Laura Cavanaugh/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterWhitney Houston's passport issued in 1979 Photograph: Julien's Auctions /Rex Features
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterA US passport issued to Truman Capote in 1972 Photograph: Bonhams & Butterfields/AP
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