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Yousuf Karsh, CC RCA FRPS (December 23, 1908 – July 13, 2002) was an Armenian-Canadian photographer known for his portraits of notable individuals. He has been described as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century.
This group of photographs covers the years from 1929 to 1941 and shows a great deal of experimentation and improvisation. Karsh was working with artificial light for the first time, and it greatly expanded not only his technical capabilities but also his creative vision.
- Leaving Armenia – Arriving in Canada
- The Early Years – Garo
- The Early Years – Ottawa
- His International Career
- The Later Years – Boston
On the stormy New Year’s Eve of 1925, the liner Versailles reached Halifax from Beirut. After a voyage of twenty-nine days, her most excited passenger in the steerage class must have been a seventeen-year-old Armenian boy who spoke little French, and less English. I was that boy. My first glimpse of the New World on a steely cold, sunny winter day ...
In the summer of 1926, I went to work for Uncle Nakash at his studio, burying my original desire to study medicine. While at first I did not realize it, everything connected with the art of photography captivated my interest and energy — it was to be not only my livelihood but my continuing passion. I roamed the fields and woods around Sherbrooke e...
I left Boston in 1931. My interest lay in the personalities that influenced all our lives, rather than merely in portraiture. Fostered by Garo’s teachings, I was yearning for adventure, to express myself, to experiment in photography. With all my possessions packed in two suitcases, I moved to Ottawa. In the capital of Canada, a crossroads of world...
A year after the Churchill photograph, early in 1943, I was on my way to England on a slow and frightening voyage on a Norwegian freighter, part of a ninety-three ship convoy. Only when I had climbed on board did her captain confide to me that the ship’s cargo hold was loaded with explosives! In wartime London, as I photographed one exhilarating pe...
In June of 1992, I closed my Ottawa studio in the Château Laurier Hotel and no longer accepted commercial assignments. After sixty years, it was an emotional wrench to say good-bye to my studio family and to the camaraderie of working together. Mrs. Hella Graber, my librarian and technician for over twenty years, had already left to pursue her own ...
Sep 23, 2024 · Yousuf Karsh was an Armenian Canadian photographer known for his portraits of important and famous men and women of politics, Hollywood, and the arts, from Albert Einstein and Sir Winston Churchill to Walt Disney and Grace Kelly.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Mar 13, 2021 · Armenian-Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh is considered one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century. Karsh’s portraits are easily recognizable for their bold and theatrical use of lighting, closely cropped composition, and his uncanny ability to reveal the inner-self of his subjects.
A Gallery Overview of Portraits. During his career he held 15,312 sittings, produced over 370,000 negatives, and left an indelible artistic and historic record of the men and women who shaped the twentieth century. The Man.
Mar 14, 2010 · Yousuf Karsh, photographer (b at Mardin, Armenian Turkey 23 Dec 1908; d at Boston, 13 July 2002). Karsh immigrated to Canada in 1924 as an Armenian refugee.
