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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)

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