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The film illuminates the multiple meanings ordinary people as well as critics, curators and philosophers attach to portrait photographs and - through the prism of these meanings - portrays the singular career of Yousuf Karsh the mythmaker.
23 de may. de 2010 · Karsh Is History: Directed by Joseph Hillel. With Geoffrey Batchen, Estrellita Karsh, Annie Leibovitz, Jessye Norman. A portrait of legendary photographer Yousuf Karsh through told through his breathtaking photography.
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. An Armenian genocide survivor, Karsh migrated to Canada as a refugee.
Karsh is History: Photographing Icons. In the collection of this legendary photographer are countless iconic photographs of people like Ernest Hemingway, Martin Luther King, Walt Disney, Einstein, JFK, Winston Churchill, and Picasso. Meet the man behind the camera: Yousuf Karsh.
Yousuf Karsh (born December 23, 1908, Mardin, Ottoman Empire—died July 13, 2002, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.) 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.
During his career he held 15,312 sittings, produced over 250,000 negatives, and left an indelible artistic and historic record of the men and women who shaped the twentieth century. Karsh’s portraits of many of those who sat before his camera are the definitive images that we remember.
Karsh is internationally known for his portraits of notable people, such as dignitaries, artists, world leaders, and scientists. He emigrated to Canada in 1924 escaping Armenian genocide in Turkey, where he came under the care of his uncle, George Nakash, an established photographer.
