Yousuf Karsh was born in 1908 on December 23rd. He was an Canadian photographer from an American heritage. Yousuf is known to be one of the most famous and accomplished portrait photographers.
When Yousuf was sixteen years old, his parents sent him to live with his uncle George. George was a photographer in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. When Yousuf was growing up he briefly went to school, while assisting his uncle in his uncle’s studio. Yousuf’s uncle George saw potential in his nephew.
It was in 1928 George arranged for Yousuf to meet with portrait photographer John Garo in Boston Massachusetts. Yousuf went back to Canada four years later to make his mark. There he opened a studio close to Canada’s scat of government. This is where people discovered him for portrait settings. It was on December 30th, 1941 when Yousuf photographed Winston Churchill, after Churchill gave a speech to Canadian House of Commons in Ottawa.
Yousuf was the master of studio lights. He photographed many of the great and celebrated the personalities of the people from his generation. He was known to use 8x10 bellows Calumet Camera.
A quote from Yousuf in 1967:
"Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. The revelation, if it comes at all, will come in a small fraction of a second with an unconscious gesture, a gleam of the eye, a brief lifting of the mask that all humans wear to conceal their innermost selves from the world. In that fleeting interval of opportunity the photographer must act or lose his prize."
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