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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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Ottawa Archbishop Marcel Gervais also gave Clarkson communion in September 2002, when she came forward at the memorial service for photographer Yousuf Karsh in Notre Dame Cathedral.
Clarkson takes Catholic Communion. (News in Brief: Canada) by Catholic Insight
A once-lost photograph by master photographer Yousuf Karsh of Anglican chaplain William Cole blessing an officer in the RCMP chapel in Regina, will soon hang in a prominent place in the RCMP training academy.
Long-lost photo discovered in Regina (Karsh photograph will hang in ... by Anglican Journal
Yousuf Karsh, 93, famed Armenian-Canadian photographer of the celebrated and powerful, died July 13 in Boston, MA.
Deaths. (Bulletin Board) by Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
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