Yousuf Karsh, master photographer of the 20th century
1941
“My portrait of Winston Churchill changed my life. I knew after I had taken it that it was an important picture, but I could hardly have dreamed that it would become one of the most widely reproduced images in the history of photography.”
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.
Yousuf Karsh’s (1908-2002) extraordinary and unique body of work presents the viewer with an intimate and compassionate view of humanity.
The Bank of England chose Winston Churchill by Yousuf Karsh to appear on the front of its all-new polymer banknote, now in circulation across the UK.
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“He awarded me the Stephen Leacock Non-Existent Gold Medal.”
“Kings and Pawns, Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America” is out now.
Among Karsh’s ambitions was to photograph Schweitzer.
“I decided to portray him standing partially hidden behind a screen.”
This year, Estrellita’s birthday coincides with Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
In the late 1920s Yousuf Karsh apprenticed with Boston-based portraitist John H. Garo.
A third portrait of Dr. King.
Baez was born on this day, January 9, in 1941.
This cover of Maclean’s from 1944 shows an early color portrait.
Sandburg was awarded the Pulitzer Prize three times.
Sargent was an architect and educator.