One of the most famous portrait photographers of all time.
Born on December 23, 1908 in Mardin, Ottoman Turkey
Died at the age of 93 on July 13, 2002 in Boston, Massachusetts. Buried at the Notre Dame Cemetery in Ottawa.
He was a Canadian photographer with Armenian heritage.
At the age of 14 he moved to Syria, then to Canada where he became an apprentice to John Garo and later a great photographer.
He became famous after photographing Winston Churchill after his speech to the Canadian House of Commons.
Photographed 51 people off the list of 100 of "International Who's Who".
Karsh published 15 books with his works including:
- Faces of destiny; portraits by Karsh (1946)
- Canada: as seen by the camera of Yousuf Karsh and described in words by John Fisher (1960)
- In search of greatness; reflections of Yousuf Karsh (1962)
- Karsh portfolio (1967)
- portraits by Karsh (1968)
- Faces of Our Time (1971)
- Karsh portraits (1976)
- Karsh Canadians (1978)
- Karsh: a fifty-year retrospective (1983)
- Karsh: American legends (1992)
- Portrait in Light and Shadow: the Life of Yousuf Karsh (2007)
- "Karsh 100: A Biography in Images" (MFA Publications, 2004)
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