Yousuf Karsh (1908–2002)
Autore di Karsh: A Fifty-Year Retrospective
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Fonte dell'immagine: Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002), self-portrait, 1938, Ottawa, Ont. (Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212511)
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1908-12-23
- Data di morte
- 2002-07-13
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Notre Dame Cemetery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Turkey
Canada - Luogo di nascita
- Mardin, Turkey
- Luogo di morte
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Luogo di residenza
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - Attività lavorative
- photographer
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Officer of the Order of Canada (1967)
Companion of the Order of Canada (1990) - Breve biografia
- As an Armenian in Turkey, the young Karsh endured persecution and privation. In 1924, at age 16, he immigrated to Canada, joining his uncle, who was a photographer, in Sherbrooke, Quebec. From 1928 to 1931 he served as an apprentice to a Boston painter and portrait photographer and briefly attended art school. Returning to Canada in 1932, he was employed by an Ottawa photographer, whose studio Karsh leased after his employer retired. He was appointed official portrait photographer of the Canadian government in 1935 and became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1947.
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Karsh : a fifty-year retrospective di Yousuf Karsh
The term "iconic" gets tossed around a lot, but that is what this book consists of: iconic images. Whether you know it or not, Karsh is the photographyer who probably shaped your image of who Hemingway is, who Churchill is, who Einstein is, who Bogart is, and on, and on. The photographic school on display is classic, formal, and dramatic mid-century 20th century photography. It is quite grand in style while still revealing the human being behind the image. Karsh is a great craftsman who brings unabashed enthusiasm for the power of celebrity -- in these two ways, he has probably most influenced the history of photography.… (altro)
Karsh arguably is the finest black and white portrait photographer of the 20th Century. Churchill, Einstein, Gagarin, Hemingway, Helen Keller, Kennedy and a host of other famous personalities are captured in the lens and described is simple, honest text in this Canadian Centennial publication.
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