Diego Galbadon, Elizabeth LaPides and Nolan Weinschenk are the 2019 Karsh Prize Winners
The 22nd annual Karsh Prize for photography students of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, was awarded last month.
Yousuf Karsh, master photographer of the 20th century
When young Yousuf Karsh was apprenticed to the eminent Boston photographer John Garo in the late 1920s, his mentor introduced him to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Karsh called his reaction to the artwork “a revelation,” immediate and long lasting. Throughout his life he would return to this Boston “university.” Over the years, Yousuf and Estrellita Karsh have made possible many photography-related activities at the Museum, through the Karsh Center, which holds the United States Archive of Karsh original fine art prints.
The ongoing activities of the Karsh Center encompass: the Karsh Lecture and Symposia; the Karsh Prize; the Senior Curator of Photographs, and Curator of Photographs; as well as special programs in collaboration with other institutions, such as Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Antioch College. Please find ongoing news about the Karsh Center below.
The 22nd annual Karsh Prize for photography students of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, was awarded last month.
“Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico” opened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on January 19, 2019, and runs through May 12, 2019. The exhibition was curated by Kristen Gresh, Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Curator of Photographs.
These beautiful paintings are a gift from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Karsh Center, and will hang in the shelter bringing joy, reflection and inspiration to our guests and anyone who visits the WLP community.
Neil Leifer shared his story with a mesmerized audience at the eleventh Karsh Lecture in Photography.
2018 marked the 21st anniversary of the Karsh photography prize for students of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
The winners exhibited their prints at the SMFA at Tufts, and met to discuss their practices with the jurors.
Inspired by Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross, join us to discuss how humankind responds in remarkable ways in the face of adversity.
With their prize-winning photographs on display, the winning students are presented their awards at an event which includes a dialogue between the young artists and jury members.
The 2016 Karsh Lecture featured a conversation with Sharon Farmer, presidential photographer to President William Clinton; and David Hume Kennerly, personal photographer to President Gerald R. Ford.
Inspired by the exhibition “In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3-11,” join us for an afternoon to discuss how humankind responds in remarkable ways in the face of adversity.
Divided into two sections—the first focused on the earthquake and tsunami and the second on the Fukushima disaster—the exhibition includes the work of 17 photographers, some of whom are among Japan’s most celebrated artists.
A daylong discussion that explored contemporary photography in Iran and the Arab world. Estrellita Karsh introduced distinguished speaker Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, followed by a day of conversations with some of the region’s outstanding women photographers.
In 2008, Estrellita Karsh donated digitized photographs from the collection of the MFA to Brigham and Women’s Hospital Physical Therapy Department.
In 2008, Estrellita Karsh permanently endowed the position of Assistant Curator of Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
The Karsh photography prize for students of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, was established by Yousuf and Estrellita Karsh in 1998 and carries forward Karsh’s practice of mentorship.
Established in 1996, by Yousuf and Estrellita Karsh, the Annual Lecture brings noted photographers to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to share their life’s work and philosophy. Inaugurated by Gordon Parks in 1998.