Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002), Photographer
Sitter in 1 portrait
Artist of 153 portraits
Armenian-born, Canadian photographer. Apprenticed to the Boston photographer John H. Garo before taking a studio in Ottawa, 1932. He was commissioned to do official Canadian Government portraits from 1935. His photograph of Winston Churchill was published on the cover of Life magazine in 1942, with important commissions for Life magazine following from 1944 onwards. Faces of Destiny was published 1946/7; Portraits of Greatness published with an exhibition organised by National Gallery of Canada, 1959/60; Karsh, A Fifty-Year Retrospective was published in 1983 with exhibitions in New York, Bradford and National Portrait Gallery.
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1937
NPG P490(79)
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1939
NPG P490(78)
Louis Mountbatten, Earl Mountbatten of Burma
by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1941
NPG P252
by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1941
On display at Beningbrough Hall
NPG P1368
Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth
by Yousuf Karsh
sepia-toned bromide print, 1943
NPG P402
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1943
NPG P490(1)
Albert Victor Alexander, Earl Alexander of Hillsborough
by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1943
NPG P490(4)
William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1943
NPG P490(9)
Andrew Browne Cunningham, Viscount Cunningham
by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1943
NPG P490(22)
Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Baron Fisher of Lambeth
by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1943
NPG P490(30)
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