Yousuf Karsh
(1908-2002), PhotographerSitter in 1 portrait
Artist associated with 158 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.
Oliver Sherwell Franks, Baron Franks of Headington
by Yousuf Karsh
gelatin silver print mounted on card, 22 November 1950
NPG P2075
Queen Elizabeth II; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1951
NPG P343
Queen Elizabeth II; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1951
NPG P490(26)
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1951
NPG P490(61)
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1951
NPG P490(80)
Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1952
NPG P490(2)
Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1952
NPG P490(3)
Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1954
NPG P250
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