Like business cards, passports can say a lot about a person — where they’ve been, where they’re going, and well, how photogenic they are under the worst conditions. This week, we caught a glimpse of René Magritte’s passport (and pipe) over at Fuck yeah, manuscripts!, and so as dyed in the wool collectors of the pop culture ephemera, we decided to check out the legal papers of a few more of our favorite artists, from Virginia Woolf to Walt Disney. Check them out after the jump, and then go count your passport stamps.
René Magritte’s pipe and passport
Photo Credit: Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Norman Mailer’s passport
Photo Credit: Ella Fitzgerald Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Ella Fitzgerald’s passport
James Brown’s passport [via Model's Own]
James Joyce’s wartime family passport
A 16-year-old Whitney Houston’s passport
F. Scott Fizgerald’s passports
Roy Orbison’s passport
Image Credit: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Jackson Pollock’s passport
Image Credit: National Archives and Records Administration
Ernest Hemingway’s passport
Janis Joplin’s passport
Photo Credit: Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Lillian Hellman’s passport
Johnny Cash’s passport
Truman Capote’s passport
David Bowie’s passport
Alfred Hitchcock’s passport
Andy Warhol’s passport
Alice Cooper’s passport
Virginia Woolf’s passport
Walt Disney’s passport
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