Photography #10:  Yousuf Karsh

December 23, 1908-July 13, 2002

Karsh was a Canadian photographer known for his portraits of important and famous men and women of politics. He was great at capturing portraits that were always posed and had a certain lighting. Karsh worked with an 8-by-10 view camera and many artificial lights. I also thought it was crazy that he was said to carry 350 pounds of equipment on his trips abroad. Yousuf was mainly known for his World War II portraits of Winston Churchill, Dwight D. Eisenhower and other leaders of the Allied cause, Karsh of Ottawa (which is what people reffered to him as) and he traveled all over the world to photograph political and military leaders, as well as celebrated writers, artists and entertainers. His portraits were featured in newspapers and magazines as well as in books.

http://www.karsh.org/