Yousuf Karsh, master photographer of the 20th century
1956
“When I photographed her in Hollywood and commented on her quality of sophisticated vulnerability, she told me of her harrowing experiences during the Second World War. Years later, in the Kremlin, Chairman Brezhnev agreed to sit for me only if I made him as beautiful as Audrey Hepburn.”
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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Karsh photographed two musical artists who performed at the festival.
Wells wrote more than forty novels and dozens of short stories.
DeMille was an American filmmaker and actor who made 70 feature films.
Lillie was a Canadian-born British actress, singer and comedy performer.
Pictured in the laboratory in which he discovered and tested penicillin.
Gabo was a Russian and American constructivist sculptor and theorist.
Burnham was a Guyanese politician.
“He produced a portrait bust of lyric beauty.”
In 1965 Johnson signed Medicare into law.
“I photographed her against a Coromandel screen.”