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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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WINSTON Churchill's bulldog look in the world famous portrait taken by Karsh of Ottawa, the legendary photographer who died in Boston aged 93 at the weekend, was not down to his ever-present determination to defeat Hitler, but anger at the loss of his precious cigar, I learn.
The Scurra by The Mirror (London, England)
The world's top photographer, Karsh of Ottawa, has presented the gallery with two other pictures of the Dunfermline-born ballerina, which hang alongside "The Bad Boy Of Punk Ballet" Michael Clark, from Aberdeen.
Art with no hang-ups; PREVIEW by McGlone, Jackie / Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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