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.
by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1 November 1984
NPG P1570
Queen Elizabeth II; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
by Yousuf Karsh
chromogenic print, 1 November 1984
NPG P1571
'Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip with their grandchildren'
by Yousuf Karsh
colour dye transfer print, 1987
NPG P543
by Yousuf Karsh
gelatin silver print on card mount, circa 1950
NPG x201316
by Yousuf Karsh, published by H.A. & W.L. Pitkin Ltd
halftone postcard print, 1951
NPG x183998
by Yousuf Karsh
gelatin silver print, circa 1952
NPG x196082
by Yousuf Karsh
matte bromide print on card, 1960s
NPG x129564
by Yousuf Karsh
matte bromide print on card, 1960s
NPG x129565
by Yousuf Karsh, for Camera Press: London: UK
bromide press print, 1960s
NPG x184273
by Yousuf Karsh, for Camera Press: London: UK
bromide press print, 1960s
NPG x184276
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