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The film illuminates the multiple meanings ordinary people as well as critics, curators and philosophers attach to portrait photographs and - through the prism of these meanings - portrays the singular career of Yousuf Karsh the mythmaker.
Yousuf Karsh, CC RCA FRPS (December 23, 1908 – July 13, 2002) was an Armenian-Canadian photographer known for his portraits of notable individuals. He has been described as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century.
Karsh is History is a portrait of legendary photographer Yousuf Karsh, a breathtaking exploration of the artist and his medium through today's lens. The film takes special care to show the meaning that critics, curators, philosophers and ordinary people attach to portrait photographs.
Karsh Is History: Directed by Joseph Hillel. With Geoffrey Batchen, Estrellita Karsh, Annie Leibovitz, Jessye Norman. A portrait of legendary photographer Yousuf Karsh through told through his breathtaking photography.
- (23)
- Documentary
- Joseph Hillel
- 2010-05-23
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Karsh is History: Photographing Icons. In the collection of this legendary photographer are countless iconic photographs of people like Ernest Hemingway, Martin Luther King, Walt Disney, Einstein, JFK, Winston Churchill, and Picasso. Meet the man behind the camera: Yousuf Karsh.
O filme ilustra os múltiplos significados que pessoas comuns, como também críticos, curadores e filósofos, atribuem a fotógrafos retratistas – e através do prisma desses significados, retrata a carreira singular de Yousuf Karsh, o maior dos criadores de mitos. Karsh, um imigrante, foi um fotógrafo comercial que se tornou o mundialmente famoso “Karsh de Ottawa”. Desde muito cedo ...
