Saturday 7 April 2012

Some of my favourite photographs by Karsh of Ottawa


Yousuf Karsh

Yousuf Karsh
BornDecember 23, 1908(1908-12-23)
Mardin,[1] Ottoman Turkey
DiedJuly 13, 2002(2002-07-13) (aged 93)
Boston, Massachusetts
NationalityCanadian, Armenian
Fieldphotography
WorksPortrait of Winston Churchill Portrait of Albert Einstein Portrait of The Queen Portrait of John F Kennedy and many more
Influenced byJohn Garo
AwardsOrder of Canada
Yousuf Karsh, CC (Armenian: Յուսուֆ Քարշ; December 23, 1908 – July 13, 2002) was an Armenian-Canadian photographer,[2] and one of the most famous and accomplished portrait photographers of all time.
File:Humphrey Bogart by Karsh (Library and Archives Canada).jpg
Humphrey Bogart
Churchill
Pope Pius XII
Ernest Hemingway
Jean Sibelius
Albert Einstein

President JF Kennedy
 
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