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Portrait In Light And Shadow: The Life Of Yousuf Karsh
Yousuf Karsh is acknowledged to be the twentieth century's leading portrait photographer. His iconic images of Bogart, Hemingway, Churchill, the Kennedys, Auden, Castro, Einstein, the Clintons, Khrushchev, Casals, and Elizabeth II inhabit the mind's eye of anyone familiar with photographic history. A refugee from the ethnic cleansing of Turkish Armenians in 1916, Karsh mad...more
Hardcover, 448 pages
Published
February 20th 2008
by Yale University Press
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Fine Book and Excellent Photos
A fine biography of Karsh. Ms Tippett starts with his life in the Middle East - how he, and his parents managed to escape and survive the Turkish genocide of the Armenian people.
Mr. Karsh came to Canada at the age of fourteen to live with his uncle in Sherbrooke. His uncle was a successful portrait photographer in that region of southern Quebec and this started Karsh off on his career.
He married Solange Gauthier who played a piv...more
A fine biography of Karsh. Ms Tippett starts with his life in the Middle East - how he, and his parents managed to escape and survive the Turkish genocide of the Armenian people.
Mr. Karsh came to Canada at the age of fourteen to live with his uncle in Sherbrooke. His uncle was a successful portrait photographer in that region of southern Quebec and this started Karsh off on his career.
He married Solange Gauthier who played a piv...more
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