Karsh Yousuf A Biography In Images

Author : Yousuf Karsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780316483223
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Karsh Portraits written by Yousuf Karsh and published by . This book was released on 1976-10-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty-eight past and present world figures are included in this collection of photographic portraits which includes Karsh's recollections of his intercourse with each subject

Author : Yousuf Karsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Karsh written by Yousuf Karsh and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The present volume is a substantially revised and redesigned version of Karsh: a sixty-year retrospective, originally published by Bulfinch Press, in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1996"--T.p. verso.

Author : Yousef Karsh
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487590717
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of Greatness written by Yousef Karsh and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1962-12-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Yousuf Karsh, whose great photographic portraits have revealed so vividly the outstanding personalities of our time, writes about his own life and work. It is the story of an Armenian immigrant boy who rose to be the world's finest portrait photographer, whose pictures, reproduced in newspapers, magazines, and books, and shown in museums, art galleries and exhibitions, have been admired by hundreds of thousands of people all over the world. Of his early years in Armenia, Karsh gives a brief but compelling account, writing without bitterness but not sparing the reader the impact on his youthful mind of the brutalities, massacres, and atrocities of that time. The dramatic impression made on him by his first experiences as a young citizen of Sherbrooke, Quebec. His several years of study in Boston with the famous photographer, Garo, show the gradual development of his ideas and skills in portraiture. In 1932, Karsh opened his own studio in Ottawa, capital city of Canada, and there he met Solange Gauthier, the volatile, charming, and practical Frenchwoman whom he married. Together they established his world-wide reputation. Karsh takes the reader with him to his sittings, and shows how he seeks to bring out the essence of the personalities he is portraying. The reader accompanies Karsh and Madam Karsh as they travel to Washington, New York, Hollywood, across Canada and to the Arctic, and on their European tours, photographing and interviewing statesmen, tycoons, artists, actors, musicians, popes, presidents, and kings. At Karsh's side, the reader hears Churchill's lion roar, the wit of Bernard Shaw, the bark of John L. Lewis, the profound accents of Einstein. He observes the grave serenity of Sibelius, and hears the noble 'cello of Casals. He shares in the problems and disappointments of securing adequate reproduction of the portraits in book form, and in the artist's gratification when Portraits of Greatness, printed by the finest gravure for the University of Toronto Press, appeared in 1959 and the magnificent volume became an immediate best-seller. Yousuf's profession has led him into the high places of the world, and this book is enriched by his twenty years of observation of the celebrities he has encountered. These are the experiences of a distinguished artist, a gifted raconteur, and a delightful human being.

Author : Yousuf Karsh
Publisher : Bulfinch Press
ISBN 13 : 9780821223345
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Karsh written by Yousuf Karsh and published by Bulfinch Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revised, updated edition of his 1983 retrospective, Yousuf Karsh, the most renowned portrait photographer of our time, presents over sixty years of his work. This classic portrait artist of the camera has repeatedly - and unforgettably - photographed the statesmen, artists, and literary and scientific figures who have shaped our lives and the private world of the mind with such perception and illumination that his image has often become the definitive portrait. Karsh is the record of a major artist whose portraits have made being "Karshed" (as Field Marshal Montgomery described it) a singular accomplishment. It is the first book on Karsh to include a large group of photographs of arresting people not in the public eye, of workers in their environments, and of his early works and experiments. It is the first book to represent his work in color, with surprising masterworks. One of the most striking features of this book is the first-time presentation of multiple portraits: a number of subjects are shown in several prints from the same or other sittings, the collective portrait revealing the consistency and depth of the photographer's vision.

Author : Yousuf Karsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yousuf Karsh written by Yousuf Karsh and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some people sitting for a photographic portrait by Yousuf Karsh may well have something for do with their rise to notoriety. Among his many subjects have been Winston Churchill, Queen Elizabeth II, J. Paul Getty, Ansel Adams, Ernest Hemingway, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Andy Warhol. As well as his photographs of all of the above and others, this book illuminates Karsh the man and the artist in essays and writings by those who have studied his work and his life.

Author : Yousuf Karsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portraits of Greatness written by Yousuf Karsh and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yousuf Karsh
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 1567923593
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regarding Heroes written by Yousuf Karsh and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2009 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects many highlights of Karsh's career, one hundred iconic portraits in all. The introductory essay by David Travis takes serious critical stock of the importance of Karsh's work and his place in the pantheon of major portrait artists. Rounding out the volume are brief biographical essays on each subject that include Karsh's own perceptive comments about his experience. From publisher description.

Author : David Travis
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 156792493X
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Karsh written by David Travis and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned photographer reveals the stories behind his iconic images in this definitive collection of portraits and personal reflections. Portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh captured some of the twentieth century’s most influential personalities—from Winston Churchill to Muhammad Ali, Albert Einstein, Mother Theresa, and many others—in photographs that became as recognizable as their subjects. Karsh: Beyond the Camera presents a chronological overview of the photographer’ work, paired with his own reflections about each image and the time he spent one-on-one with the subject. Edited by veteran curator David Travis, Karsh: Beyond the Camera is a fascinating study of the photographer’s technical and stylistic development over the course of his career. Drawing on extensive interviews between Karsh and his long-time assistant, Jerry Fielder, it also shares a rare and intimate look at the man’s life from surviving the Armenian genocide to becoming one of the world’s most sought-after portrait photographers. “Famously reticent about his work, this is a rare invitation to learn the stories behind Karsh’s most famous meetings with great men and women, and of his aesthetic choices when met with the challenge of capturing them as they were.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Maria Tippett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portrait in Light and Shadow written by Maria Tippett and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 made his home in Boston and Ottawa but travelled the globe during his sixty-year career, photographing political leaders, celebrities, monarchs, and movie stars. He died in 2002, aged 94. He left a legacy of 50,000 portraits.This is the first biography, written with help from his family and colleagues and based on the Karsh archive in Ottawa. Its publication marks Karsh's centenary in 2008, when retrospective exhibitions are scheduled in a number of locations in North America, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, Boston Public Library, and Rhode Island School of Design. The book reproduces sixty of Karsh s most celebrated portraits, and reveals the technique behind the camera and the brilliant mastery of the photographer."

Author : Yousuf Karsh
Publisher : London : Nelson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Karsh Portfolio written by Yousuf Karsh and published by London : Nelson. This book was released on 1967 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrætfotografier af kendte personligheder.