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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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Christopher Fry, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(33)

Christopher Fry

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1954
NPG P490(33)

Augustus John, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(42)

Augustus John

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1954
NPG P490(42)

Augustus John, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(43)

Augustus John

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1954
NPG P490(43)

Laurence Olivier, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(59)

Laurence Olivier

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1954
NPG P490(59)

Laurence Olivier; Vivien Leigh, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(60)

Laurence Olivier; Vivien Leigh

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1954
NPG P490(60)

Terence Rattigan, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(66)

Terence Rattigan

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1954
NPG P490(66)

Vanessa Redgrave; Sir Michael Redgrave, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(67)

Vanessa Redgrave; Sir Michael Redgrave

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1954
NPG P490(67)

Moira Shearer, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(71)

Moira Shearer

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1954
NPG P490(71)

Jacob Epstein, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(28)

Jacob Epstein

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1955
NPG P490(28)

(George) Gilbert Aimé Murray, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(56)

(George) Gilbert Aimé Murray

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1955
NPG P490(56)

Arnold Joseph Toynbee, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(77)

Arnold Joseph Toynbee

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1955
NPG P490(77)

Winston Churchill, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P244

Winston Churchill

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1956
NPG P244

Winston Churchill, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(18)

Winston Churchill

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1956
NPG P490(18)

Indira Gandhi, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(34)

Indira Gandhi

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1956
NPG P490(34)

Jawaharlal Nehru, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(57)

Jawaharlal Nehru

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1956
NPG P490(57)

Margot Fonteyn, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(32)

Margot Fonteyn

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1957
NPG P490(32)

Siobhan McKenna, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(48)

Siobhan McKenna

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1957
NPG P490(48)

Alfred Hitchcock, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(39)

Alfred Hitchcock

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1960
NPG P490(39)

Alfred Hitchcock, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(40)

Alfred Hitchcock

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1960
NPG P490(40)

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