Yousuf Karsh
(1908-2002), PhotographerSitter 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.
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
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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