Karsh Canadians

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978. First Edition. 203pp. Quarto [31 cm] Silver cloth with silver stamped titles on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Signed by the author on the front free endsheet in the year of publication. Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002) was an Armenian-Canadian photographer known for his portraits of Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe, and Albert Einstein. Growing up in Quebec, Karsh learned photography from his uncle who ran a portrait studio in the town of Sherbrooke. He later apprenticed under John H. Garo in Boston during the late 1920s. Opening his first studio in Ottawa in 1932, one of Karsh's early patrons was Canada's Prime Minister Mackenzie King. King helped the young artist set up appointments to photograph foreign dignitaries visiting the country. Over the decades the followed, he made many notable portraits, including those of Georgia O'Keeffe, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Nikita Khrushchev. (Inventory #: 9761)