This is a black and white reproduction of the portrait by Yousuf Karsh,
archivally matted in 11x14" white Exeter conservation mat. Image size: 7.5x9.5".
Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002)
was one of the world's greatest portrait photographers.
Best known for his
World War II portraits of Winston Churchill,
Dwight Eisenhower and other leaders of the Allied cause, Karsh
of Ottawa, as he was called professionally, traveled the world to
photograph political and military leaders, as well as celebrated
writers, artists and entertainers.
His portraits were reproduced widely in newspapers and
magazines as well as in books, and many of them have become the
best-loved and most familiar images of their subjects. His most
famous portraits include: the 1941 picture of Churchill as an
indomitable wartime leader; George Bernard Shaw as quizzical old
sage in 1943; Eisenhower in 1946 as a five-star general and
supreme commander of the Allied Forces in Europe; Ernest
Hemingway in a turtle-neck sweater in 1957; Georgia O'Keeffe in
her New Mexico studio in 1956, and Nikita Khrushchev swathed
in fur in 1963. He also photographed Harry Truman, John
Kennedy, Fidel Castro and Andy Warhol. Karsh was a master of
the formally posed, carefully lighted studio portrait. Working with
a large-format view camera and a battery of artificial lights (he was
said to carry 350 pounds - nearly 160 kilograms - of equipment
on his trips abroad) he aimed, in his own words, "to stir the
emotions of the viewer" and to "lay bare the soul" of his sitter.
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