SO, DO YOU KNOW WHO THE PHOTOGRAPHER IS ?
You all know this photo…… Winston Churchill 1941 The Kennedys 1957 and perhaps this also…… of course this……. Andy Warhol 1957 perhaps you know these as well? Humphrey Bogart 1946 Audrey Hepburn 1956 Elizabeth Taylor 1946 Now be honest, do you know who the photographer is or was? Yousuf Karsh One of the greatest photographers of all time Yousuf Karsh, was an Armenian who as a boy survived the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by Turkish Ottoman Empire and arrived to Canada at age 16.In 1928 Karsh apprenticed with photographer John Garo in Boston then returned to Canada where Prime Minister Mackenzie King helped him photograph the visiting diplomats. In 1941 Karsh took the legendary portrait of Winston Churchill - one of the most reproduced images in history.The photographic subjects of Karsh (Armenian name Hovsep Karshian) included Pablo Picasso, Albert Einstein, Ernest Hemingway, Queen Elizabeth II, Clark Gable, Audrey Hepburn, Pope J