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Yousuf Karsh

(1908-2002), Photographer

Sitter in 2 portraits
Artist associated with 159 portraits
Armenian-born Canadian photographer. Initially apprenticed to the Boston photographer John H. Garo, Karsh opened a studio in Ottawa in 1932. Within three years he was commissioned to take the official photographs of the Canadian Government and in 1942, his photograph of Winston Churchill was published on the cover of Life magazine, with other important commissions for Life magazine following. Faces of Destiny was published in 1946/7, Portraits of Greatness was published with an exhibition organised by National Gallery of Canada in 1959/60, and Karsh, A Fifty-Year Retrospective in 1983, with exhibitions in New York, Bradford and London's National Portrait Gallery.

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John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(79)

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1937
NPG P490(79)

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(78)

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1939
NPG P490(78)

Winston Churchill, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P243

Winston Churchill

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1941
NPG P243

Winston Churchill, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(16)

Winston Churchill

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1941
NPG P490(16)

Winston Churchill, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(17)

Winston Churchill

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1941
NPG P490(17)

Winston Churchill, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P1368

Winston Churchill

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1941
On display in Room 27 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG P1368

Noël Coward, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P245

Noël Coward

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1943
NPG P245

Queen Elizabeth II, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P334

Queen Elizabeth II

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1943
NPG P334

Queen Elizabeth II, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P335

Queen Elizabeth II

by Yousuf Karsh
cibachrome print, 1943
NPG P335

Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P402

Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Yousuf Karsh
sepia-toned bromide print, 1943
NPG P402

Ernest Bevin, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(12)

Ernest Bevin

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1943
NPG P490(12)

Noël Coward, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(20)

Noël Coward

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1943
NPG P490(20)

Sir Stafford Cripps, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(21)

Sir Stafford Cripps

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1943
NPG P490(21)

King George VI, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(35)

King George VI

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1943
NPG P490(35)

King George VI, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(36)

King George VI

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1943
NPG P490(36)

Sir David Low, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(47)

Sir David Low

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1943
NPG P490(47)

George Bernard Shaw, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(69)

George Bernard Shaw

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1943
NPG P490(69)

George Bernard Shaw, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(70)

George Bernard Shaw

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1943
NPG P490(70)

Jan Christian Smuts, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(72)

Jan Christian Smuts

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1943
NPG P490(72)

William Temple, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(75)

William Temple

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1943
NPG P490(75)

H.G. Wells, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(86)

H.G. Wells

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1943
NPG P490(86)

Clement Attlee, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P241

Clement Attlee

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1944
On display in Room 28 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG P241

Clement Attlee, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(6)

Clement Attlee

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1944
NPG P490(6)

Sir John Greer Dill, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(24)

Sir John Greer Dill

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1944
NPG P490(24)

Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P246

Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1945
NPG P246

Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(8)

Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1945
NPG P490(8)

Boris Karloff, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P318

Boris Karloff

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1946
NPG P318

Dame Elizabeth Taylor, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P254

Dame Elizabeth Taylor

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1946
NPG P254

Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(5)

Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1946
NPG P490(5)

Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Bt, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(11)

Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Bt

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1946
NPG P490(11)

Angela Lansbury, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(45)

Angela Lansbury

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1946
NPG P490(45)

Dame Elizabeth Taylor, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(74)

Dame Elizabeth Taylor

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1946
NPG P490(74)

Somerset Maugham, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(49)

Somerset Maugham

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1947
NPG P490(49)

Beatrice Gladys Lillie (Lady Peel), by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P248

Beatrice Gladys Lillie (Lady Peel)

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1948
NPG P248

Beatrice Gladys Lillie (Lady Peel), by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(46)

Beatrice Gladys Lillie (Lady Peel)

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1948
NPG P490(46)

Henry Moore, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P251

Henry Moore

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1949
NPG P251

Harold Wilson, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P257

Harold Wilson

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1949
NPG P257

Sir Henry Hallett Dale, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(23)

Sir Henry Hallett Dale

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1949
NPG P490(23)

Alexander Korda, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(44)

Alexander Korda

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1949
NPG P490(44)

Harold Nicolson, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(58)

Harold Nicolson

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1949
NPG P490(58)

J.B. Priestley, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(63)

J.B. Priestley

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1949
NPG P490(63)

Joseph Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(65)

Joseph Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1949
NPG P490(65)

Bertrand Russell, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(68)

Bertrand Russell

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1949
NPG P490(68)

Ralph Vaughan Williams, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(81)

Ralph Vaughan Williams

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1949
NPG P490(81)

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