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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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Sir Robert Watson-Watt, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(83)

Sir Robert Watson-Watt

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1960
NPG P490(83)

Leslie Caron, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P242

Leslie Caron

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1963
NPG P242

Harold Wilson, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P258

Harold Wilson

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1963
NPG P258

Harold Wilson, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(88)

Harold Wilson

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1963
NPG P490(88)

Evelyn Waugh, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P256

Evelyn Waugh

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1964
NPG P256

Graham Greene, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(37)

Graham Greene

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1964
NPG P490(37)

Evelyn Waugh, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(84)

Evelyn Waugh

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1964
NPG P490(84)

Kenneth Clark, Baron Clark, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(19)

Kenneth Clark, Baron Clark

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1965
NPG P490(19)

Queen Elizabeth II, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P338

Queen Elizabeth II

by Yousuf Karsh
cibachrome print, 1966
NPG P338

Queen Elizabeth II, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P339

Queen Elizabeth II

by Yousuf Karsh
cibachrome print, 1966
NPG P339

Queen Elizabeth II, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P340

Queen Elizabeth II

by Yousuf Karsh
cibachrome print, 1966
NPG P340

Queen Elizabeth II; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P1557

Queen Elizabeth II; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

by Yousuf Karsh
chromogenic print, 2 August 1966
NPG P1557

Queen Elizabeth II, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P1558

Queen Elizabeth II

by Yousuf Karsh
chromogenic print, 1966
NPG P1558

Queen Elizabeth II, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P1559

Queen Elizabeth II

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 2 August 1966
NPG P1559

Queen Elizabeth II, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P1560

Queen Elizabeth II

by Yousuf Karsh
chromogenic print, 2 August 1966
NPG P1560

Queen Elizabeth II, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P1561

Queen Elizabeth II

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 2 August 1966
NPG P1561

Queen Elizabeth II, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P1562

Queen Elizabeth II

by Yousuf Karsh
chromogenic print, 2 August 1966
NPG P1562

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