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World Culture Pictorial (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
(quote) The work of the legendary portraitist is celebrated at a centenary exhibit at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Among the portraits - Audrey Hepburn, 1956 "The French novelist Colette picked her out of a ballet lineup to play Gigi on stage, and her career was launched. When I photographed her in Hollywood and commented on her quality of sophisticated vulnerability, she told me of her harrowing...
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Turkish Armenians (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
When taking his world-famous portraits, Yousuf Karsh sought to reveal his subject's "hidden" character by capturing ephemeral emotions concealed beneath the mask of celebrity.Combining a courtly demeanor with darkroom brilliance, the Armenia native photographed royalty and despots, starlets and artists transforming their public faces into iconic images.In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Karsh's...
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Bostonist (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
The Museum of Fine Arts and the SMFA are currently showing exhibits of two technically gifted photographers: the young South American artist Esteban Pastorino Diaz and legendary portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh. Taking only a cursory look over "Shifting Perspectives," an exhibit of Argentinian photographer Esteban Pastorino Diaz's work, one might walk away thinking he shot a number of intricate...
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
BOSTON.- Estrellita Karsh, wife of the renowned portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh, was honored this evening with an award for her service to Canada during the opening reception for Karsh 100: A Biography in Images at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). The awarda flag that has flown above Canada's Parliament building in Ottawa, along with a citation recognizing Mrs. Karsh's
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Uncertain Times (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
TIME: Peter Lorre, 1946 "The large sign on the driveway outside of his home read 'Beware of Ferocious Dogs.' They turned out to be two frisky Pekingese. His screen role as the sensitive deviant "M" had launched his European career as a serious actor. The American movie legend of Peter Lorre was that of the timorous, sometimes menacing, sometimes bumbling sidekick of the arch villain. He turned out...
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
BOSTON, MA.- The legacy of Yousuf Karshthe man behind the lens of some of the 20th century's most famous photographic portraitsis illuminated as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), presents Karsh 100: A Biography in Images. The exhibition of more than 100 works celebrating the 100th anniversary of Karsh's birth (1908) presents his iconic portraits of the era's most illustrious
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
BOSTON, MA - The legacy of Yousuf Karsh. . the man behind the lens of some of the 20th century’s most famous photographic portraits is illuminated as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), presents Karsh 100: A Biography in Images. The exhibition of more than 100 works celebrating the 100th anniversary of Karsh’s birth (1908) presents his iconic portraits of the era’s most illustrious faces alongside...
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cbs4denver.com: Water Cooler (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
A white-bearded Florida man won an Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest, a highlight of a festival that ended Sunday honoring the late Nobel Prize-winning author.
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WCBSTV.com: Your Source For New Yor (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
A white-bearded Florida man won an Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest, a highlight of a festival that ended Sunday honoring the late Nobel Prize-winning author.
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Chicago news (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
A white-bearded Florida man won an Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest, a highlight of a festival that ended Sunday honoring the late Nobel Prize-winning author.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
KEY WEST, Fla. -- A white-bearded Florida man won an Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest, a highlight of a festival that ended Sunday honoring the late Nobel Prize-winning author.
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Limbicnutrition Weblog (Free subscription) | 30/01/2008
Wife of master portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh, she had a magnificent physique and was his only nude model. No Tags No Tags
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How to Have Great Self Confidence (Free subscription) | 28/01/2008
Does my photograph on the top right of this page give weight and authority to what I write? Or does it put you off, as I look a bit of a wimp? And if you subscribe by RSS you don't have to look at me at all! Researchers at Tufts University in Massachusetts have come [...]
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Robin Good (Free subscription) | 21/12/2007
Reflecting upon the true nature of the new set of media we have created around us is probably one of the most important activities anyone involved in media communication should engage with from time to time. Photo credit: (c) Yousuf Karsh - edited by Robin Good I must be thankful for taking me again onto this intellectual recreation journey to Teemu Arina , a young Finnish entrepreneur, scholar and...
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Hyelog (Free subscription) | 08/12/2007
8 Dec. 2007 Montreal Gazette, Canada LOUISE ABBOTT, Freelance Ottawa photographer focused on history-makers Years ago, a friend gave me a second-hand copy of Portraits of Greatness, a 1959 coffee-table book by renowned Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh. The portraits featured the likes of artist Georgia O'Keeffe, composer Igor Stravinsky, writer Ernest Hemingway, physicist Niels Bohr and Queen Elizabeth...
