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Karsh, Yousuf
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Karsh, Yousuf

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Karsh, self-portrait, 1988
(credit: 1988 Karsh of Ottawa/Woodfin Camp & Assoc.)
(born Dec. 23, 1908, Mardin, Tur.—died July 13, 2002, Boston, Mass., U.S.) Turkish-born Canadian photographer. As an Armenian in Turkey, he endured persecution before emigrating at 16 to Canada, where he joined his photographer uncle. He worked for a Boston portrait photographer (1928–31) then returned to Canada and soon opened his own studio in Ottawa. In 1935 he was appointed official portrait photographer of the Canadian government. His portrait of Winston Churchill (1941) brought him international fame. “Karsh of Ottawa” went on to photograph hundreds of the world's most prominent figures, including royalty, statesmen, artists, and writers, employing dramatic lighting techniques to produce idealized likenesses.



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forces shelled his home in Najaf, Iraq in 2004, and Mutassam Abu Karsh, who lost a hand and a leg in an Israeli artillery attack on Jebalya in Gaza.
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Karsh also said the city needs to develop a process to work with the LAUSD, particularly because of previous disputes with the city over the years regarding school siting issues.
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