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.
Wallis, Duchess of Windsor; Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII)
by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1971
NPG P490(89)
by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1971
NPG P490(90)
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh; Queen Elizabeth II
by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1984
NPG P345
Queen Elizabeth II; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
by Yousuf Karsh
cibachrome print, 1984
NPG P346
by Yousuf Karsh
chromogenic print, 1 November 1984
NPG P1563
by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1 November 1984
NPG P1564
by Yousuf Karsh
chromogenic print, 1 November 1984
NPG P1565
by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1 November 1984
NPG P1566
by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1 November 1984
NPG P1567
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh; Queen Elizabeth II
by Yousuf Karsh
chromogenic print, 1 November 1984
NPG P1568
by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1 November 1984
NPG P1569
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