photos, portofolio of Yousuf Karsh

1. Portraits of great people.
Photographer Yousuf Karsh .
Yousuf Karsh (Born Yousuf Karsh) - ( December 23, 1908 - July 13, 2002 ) -
Canadian photographer , one of the masters of portrait photography.
Armenian origin . Karsh was born in the town of Mardin in southeastern Turkey.
At the age of 14 with parents Karsh was forced to flee Turkey and settled in
Syria , fleeing the genocide.
After 2 years parents sent Yusuf in Canada to his uncle George ( Gregory )
Nagash . Karsh received their education there , working in the studio Nagash .
Noticing the photographic talent Yusuf , Nagash sends him to learn from the
portrait photographer John Garo in Boston.
After 4 years Karsh returned to Canada. He founded his own studio in downtown
Ottawa . Soon the work of Karsh attract a variety of celebrities , but he reaches the
highest popularity in 1941, when shoots portrait of Winston Churchill during the
latter's visit to Ottawa . Of the 100 most notable people of the XX century ,
according to the International Who's Who ( 2000), Karsh photographed 51.

2. The Venerable Pope
John Paul II (18
May 1920 – 2 April
2005, born Karol
Józef Wojtyła)
reigned as Supreme
Pontiff of the Roman
Catholic Church and
Sovereign of Vatican
City from 16 October
1978 until his death
on 2 April 2005. His
was the second-
longest documented
pontificate; only
Pope Pius IX served
longer (St. Peter the
Apostle is reputed to
have served for more
than thirty years as
the first pontiff, but
documentation is too
sparse to definitively
support this). He has
been the only Slavic
and Polish Pope to
date, and was the
first non-Italian Pope
since Dutch Pope
Adrian VI in 1522.

3. Mother Teresa (26 August
1910 – 5 September 1997),
born Agnes Gonxhe
Bojaxhiu, was a Catholic
nun of Albanian ethnicity
and Indian citizenship, who
founded the
Missionaries of Charity in
Calcutta, India in 1950. For
over 45 years she ministered
to the poor, sick, orphaned,
and dying, while guiding the
Missionaries of Charity's
expansion, first throughout
India and then in other
countries. Following her
death she was beatified by
Pope John Paul II and given
the title Blessed Teresa of
Calcutta

4. Grace
Kelly
and
Prince
Rainier

5. Grace Patricia Kelly
(November 12, 1929 –
September 14, 1982) was
an American
Academy Award-winning
actress and
Princess consort of Monaco
. In April 1956 Kelly
married
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco
, and became styled as
Her Serene Highness The
Princess of Monaco, and
was commonly referred to
as Princess Grace

6. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
(April 15, 1894 – September 11,
1971) led the Soviet Union during
part of the Cold War. He served as
First Secretary of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
from 1953 to 1964, and as
Chairman of the Council of Ministers
, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964.
Khrushchev was responsible for the
partial de-Stalinization of the Soviet
Union, for backing the progress of
the early Soviet space program, and
for several relatively liberal reforms
in areas of domestic policy.
Khrushchev's party colleagues
removed him from power in 1964,
replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev
as First Secretary and
Alexei Kosygin as Premier.

7. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-
Churchill, (30 November 1874 –
24 January 1965) was a
British politician and statesman
known for his leadership of the
United Kingdom during the
Second World War. He is widely
regarded as one of the great
wartime leaders. He served as
prime minister from 1940 to 1945
and again from 1951 to 1955. A
noted statesman and orator,
Churchill was also an officer in
the British Army, a historian,
writer and artist. To date, he is
the only British prime minister to
have received the
Nobel Prize in Literature, and the
first person to be recognised as an
honorary citizen of the United States
.

9. Sophia Loren (born Sofia
Villani Scicolone;
September 20, 1934) is an
Italian actress.[1]
In 1962, she won the
Academy Award for Best
Actress for her role in Two
Women, becoming the first
actress to win an Academy
Award for a non-English-
speaking performance,she
won another 21 awards for
that role. Loren has won 50
international awards,
including two Oscars, five
Golden Globe Awards, a
Grammy Award and a
BAFTA Award. Her other
films include Attila (1954),
The Pride and the Passion
(1957), Houseboat (1958),
El cid (1961), Yesterday,
Today and Tomorrow
(1963), Marriage Italian
Style (1964), A Special Day
(1977), Grumpier Old Men
(1995), and Nine (2009).

10. Ludwig Mies van
der Rohe (March
27, 1886 – August
17, 1969) was a
German-American
architect. He was
commonly referred
to and addressed
by his surname,
Mies, by his
colleagues,
students, writers,
and others.
Ludwig Mies van
der Rohe, along
with
Walter Gropius
and Le Corbusier,
is widely regarded
as one of the
pioneering masters
of
Modern architecture

11. Martha Graham (May 11,
1894 – April 1, 1991) was an
American dancer
choreographer regarded as
one of the foremost pioneers
of modern dance, whose
influence on dance can be
compared to the influence
Stravinsky had on music,
Picasso had on the visual
arts, or Frank Lloyd Wright
had on architecture. Graham
was a galvanizing performer,
a choreographer of
astounding productivity and
originality. She invented a
new language of movement,
and used it to reveal the
passion, the rage and the
ecstasy common to human
experience.

12. Ansel Easton Adams
(February 20, 1902 – April 22,
1984) was an American
photographer and
environmentalist, best known
for his black-and-white
photographs of the
American West, especially in
Yosemite National Park. One
of his most famous
photographs was Moon and
Half Dome, Yosemite National
Park, California.
With Fred Archer, Adams
developed the Zone System as
a way to determine proper
exposure and adjust the
contrast of the final print. The
resulting clarity and depth
characterized his photographs
and the work of those to whom
he taught the system.

13. Pablo Diego José Francisco
de Paula Juan Nepomuceno
María de los Remedios
Cipriano de la Santísima
Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso
(25 October 1881 – 8 April
1973) was a Spanish-born
painter, draughtsman, and
sculptor who lived most of his
adult life in France. He is best
known for co-founding the
Cubist movement and for the
wide variety of styles embodied
in his work. Among his most
famous works are the proto-
Cubist Les Demoiselles
d'Avignon (1907) and Guernica
(1937), his portrayal of the
German bombing of Guernica
during the Spanish Civil War.

14. Ernest Miller Hemingway (July
21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an
American author and journalist. His
distinctive writing style,
characterized by economy and
understatement, influenced 20th-
century fiction, as did his life of
adventure and public image. He
produced most of his work between
the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s.
He won the
Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Hemingway's fiction was successful
because the characters he presented
exhibited authenticity that resonated
with his audience. Many of his
works are classics of
American literature. He published
seven novels, six short story
collections, and two non-fiction
works during his lifetime; a further
three novels, four collections of
short stories, and three non-fiction
works were published posthumously
.

15. Man Ray (August 27, 1890 –
November 18, 1976), born
Emmanuel Radnitzky, was an
American artist who spent most
of his career in Paris, France.
Perhaps best described simply
as a modernist, he was a
significant contributor to both
the Dada and Surrealist
movements, although his ties to
each were informal. Best known
in the art world for his
avant-garde photography, Man
Ray produced major works in a
variety of media and considered
himself a painter above all. He
was also a renowned fashion
and portrait photographer. He is
noted for his photograms, which
he renamed "rayographs" after
himself.

16. Georgia Totto O'Keeffe
(November 15, 1887 – March
6, 1986) was an American
artist. Born near Sun Prairie,
Wisconsin, O'Keeffe was a
major figure in American art
from the 1920s. She received
widespread recognition for her
technical contributions, as well
as for challenging the
boundaries of modern
American artistic style. She is
chiefly known for paintings of
flowers, rocks, shells, animal
bones, and landscapes in which
she synthesized abstraction and
representation. Her paintings
present crisply contoured forms
that are replete with subtle tonal
transitions of varying colors.

17. George Bernard Shaw (26
July 1856 – 2 November 1950)
was an Irish playwright and a
co-founder of the
London School of Economics.
Although his first profitable
writing was music and literary
criticism, in which capacity he
wrote many highly articulate
pieces of journalism, his main
talent was for drama, and he
wrote more than 60 plays.
Nearly all his writings deal
sternly with prevailing social
problems, but have a vein of
comedy to make their stark
themes more palatable. Shaw
examined education, marriage,
religion, government, health
care, and class privilege.

19. Andrew Warhola (August
6, 1928 – February 22,
1987), known as Andy
Warhol, was an American
painter, printmaker, and
filmmaker who was a
leading figure in the
visual art movement known
as pop art. After a successful
career as a
commercial illustrator,
Warhol became famous
worldwide for his work as a
painter, avant-garde
filmmaker, record producer,
author, and member of
highly diverse social circles
that included bohemian
street people, distinguished
intellectuals, Hollywood
celebrities and wealthy
patrons.

20. Jean Maurice Eugène Clément
Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11
October 1963) was a French poet,
novelist, dramatist, designer,
boxing manager, playwright,
artist and filmmaker. Along with
other avant-garde artists of his
generation (Jean Anouilh and
René Char for example) Cocteau
grappled with the "algebra" of
verbal codes old and new, mise
en scène language and
technologies of modernism to
create a paradox: a classical
avant-garde. His circle of
associates, friends and lovers
included Pablo Picasso,
Jean Hugo, Jean Marais,
Henri Bernstein,
Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel,
Erik Satie,María Félix, Édith Piaf
(whom he cast in one of his one-
act plays entitled Le Bel
Indifferent in 1940), and

21. Charles André Joseph
Marie de Gaulle (22
November 1890 – 9
November 1970) was a
French general and
statesman who led the
Free French Forces during
World War II. He later
founded the French Fifth
Republic in 1958 and
served as its first
President from 1959 to
1969.

22. Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (born 28 September 1934)

23. Marc Chagall
(7 July 1887 –
28 March
1985)

24. Albert
Einstein
(n. 14
martie
1879, Ulm
- d. 18
aprilie
1955,
Princeton)

25. Joan Miró i
Ferrà (April
20, 1893 –
December 25,
1983; was a
Catalan/Spani
sh painter,
sculptor, and
ceramicist
born in
Barcelona.

26. Humphrey DeForest Bogart
(December 25, 1899 – January
14, 1957) was an American actor.
He is widely regarded as a
cultural icon. The American Film
Institute ranked Bogart as the
greatest male star in the history
of American cinema.

27. John Fitzgerald "Jack"
Kennedy (May 29, 1917 –
November 22, 1963), often
referred to by his initials JFK,
was the 35th President of the
United States, serving from
1961 until his assassination in
1963.
After his military service as
commander of the Motor
Torpedo Boat PT-109 during
World War II in the South
Pacific, Kennedy represented
Massachusetts's 11th
congressional district in the
U.S. House of Representatives
from 1947 to 1953 as a
Democrat, and served in the
U.S. Senate from 1953 until
1960.

28. Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy
Onassis (July 28, 1929 – May 19,
1994) was the wife of the 35th
President of the United States, John
Fitzgerald Kennedy, and served as
First Lady during his presidency
from 1961 until his assassination in
1963. She was later married to
Greek shipping magnate Aristotle
Onassis from 1968 until his death in
1975. For the final two decades of
her life, she had a successful career
as a book editor. She is remembered
for her contributions to the arts and
historic preservation, her style and
elegance, and her public stoicism in
the wake of President Kennedy's
assassination.

29. Joan Chandos Baez (born
January 9, 1941) is an
American folk singer,
songwriter and activist. Baez
has a distinctive vocal style,
with a strong vibrato. Her
recordings include many topical
songs and material dealing with
social issues.

30. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
(born August 13, 1926) is a
Cuban politician. One of the
primary leaders of the Cuban
Revolution, Castro served as the
Prime Minister of Cuba from
February 1959 to December
1976, and then as the President of
the Council of State of Cuba and
the President of Council of
Ministers of Cuba until his
resignation from the office in
February 2008. He currently
serves as First Secretary of the
Communist Party of Cuba, a
position he has held since 1965.

31. Bill
Clinton

32. Jacques -Yves Cousteau -
Jacques Cousteau; (11 June
1910 – 25 June 1997) was a
French naval officer, explorer,
ecologist, filmmaker, innovator,
scientist, photographer, author
and researcher who studied the
sea and all forms of life in water.
He co-developed the aqua-lung,
pioneered marine conservation
and was a member of the
Académie française. He was also
known as "le Commandant
Cousteau" or "Captain
Cousteau".

33. Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
(December 5, 1901 – December
15, 1966) was an American film
producer, director, screenwriter,
voice actor, animator,
entrepreneur, entertainer,
international icon, and
philanthropist. Disney is famous
for his influence in the field of
entertainment during the 20th
century. As the co-founder (with
his brother Roy O. Disney) of
Walt Disney Productions, Disney
became one of the best-known
motion picture producers in the
world. The corporation he co-
founded, now known as The
Walt Disney Company, today has
annual revenues of
approximately U.S. $35 billion.

34. Born in Ixelles, Belgium as Audrey
Kathleen Ruston, Hepburn spent her
childhood chiefly in the Netherlands,
including German-occupied Arnhem,
Netherlands, during the Second World
War. She studied ballet in Arnhem and
then moved to London in 1948, where
she continued to train in ballet and
worked as a photographer's model. She
appeared in several European films
before starring in the 1951 Broadway
play Gigi. Hepburn played the lead
female role in Roman Holiday (1953),
winning an Academy Award, a Golden
Globe.
Hepburn became one of the most
successful film actresses in the world and
performed with notable leading men such
as Gregory Peck, Rex Harrison,
Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Cary
Grant, Henry Fonda, William Holden,
Burt Lancaster, Fred Astaire, James
Garner, Peter O'Toole and Albert Finney.

35. Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-
Gris, who chose to be known as
Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887
– August 27, 1965), was a Swiss
architect, designer, urbanist,
writer and also painter, who is
famous for being one of the
pioneers of what now is called
Modern architecture or the
International style. He was born
in Switzerland and became a
French citizen in his thirties.

36. Henry Spencer Moore
(30 July 1898 – 31
August 1986) was an
English sculptor and
artist. He was best
known for his abstract
monumental bronze
sculptures which are
located around the world
as public works of art.

37. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
(October 11, 1884 – November
7, 1962) was the
First Lady of the United States
from 1933 to 1945. She
supported the New Deal
policies of her husband,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and
became an advocate for
civil rights. After her husband's
death in 1945, Roosevelt
continued to be an
internationally prominent
author, speaker, politician, and
activist for the
New Deal coalition. She
worked to enhance the status of
working women, although she
opposed the
Equal Rights Amendment
because she believed it would
adversely affect women.

38. Sir Alfred Joseph
Hitchcock, (13 August
1899 – 29 April 1980) was an
English filmmaker and
producer. He pioneered many
techniques in the suspense and
psychological thriller genres.
After a successful career in
his native United Kingdom in
both silent films and early
talkies, Hitchcock moved to
Hollywood. In 1956 he
became an American citizen
while remaining a British
subject.

39. Laurence Kerr Olivier,
Baron Olivier, (22 May
1907 – 11 July 1989) was
an English actor, director,
and producer. He was one
of the most famous and
revered British actors of
the 20th century. He
married Jill Esmond,
Vivien Leigh and Joan
Plowright.

40. Dame Elizabeth Rosemond
Taylor, (born 27 February
1932), also known as Liz
Taylor, is an English-American
actress. She is known for her
acting talent and beauty, as well
as her Hollywood lifestyle,
including many marriages.
Taylor is considered one of the
great actresses of
Hollywood's golden age.

41. Ingrid Bergman (29
August 1915 – 29 August
1982) was a Swedish
actress noted for her
starring roles in
American films. She won
three Academy Awards,
two Emmy Awards, and the
Tony Award for
Best Actress. She is ranked
as the
fourth greatest female star
of American cinema of all
time by the
American Film Institute.
She is best remembered for
her role as Ilsa Lund in
Casablanca (1942), a
World War II drama co-
starring Humphrey Bogart.

42. YOUSUF KARSH
Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002) is one of the masters of
20th century photography. His body of work
includes portraits of statesmen, artists, musicians,
authors, scientists, and men and women of
accomplishment. His extraordinary and unique
portfolio presents the viewer with an intimate and
compassionate view of humanity.
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