Yousuf Karsh: Life & Work - Couverture rigide

Rombout, Melissa

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1487103786 ISBN 13 : 9781487103781

Editeur : Canadian Art Library, 2025

Synopsis

Yousuf Karsh (1908?2002) is widely recognized as one of the leading portrait photographers of the twentieth century. Arriving in Canada alone in 1924 as a fifteen-year-old displaced refugee of the Armenian genocide, Karsh mastered the art of portraiture through apprenticeships in stylish studios of the Pictorialist age. With his camera, he sought to capture the essential nature of his subjects in what he called the ?elusive moment of truth.? Over the course of six decades, ?Karsh of Ottawa? created a unique visual chronicle of celebrated legends and so-called ordinary sitters, becoming a celebrity in his own right.

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À propos de l?auteur

Melissa Rombout is an independent curator and lecturer on histories of photography. She received her PhD from Amsterdam's School for Cultural Analysis considering the political performativity of art photography. Rombout has had a prolific career working with museums, libraries, and archives in Canada and internationally. In her former role as photohistorian at Library and Archives Canada, she specialized in research on the vast Yousuf Karsh archive and has since curated several Karsh exhibitions organized in Ottawa, London, and Canberra.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Canadian Art Library
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1487103786
• ISBN 13: 9781487103781
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 128
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