Yousuf Karsh

Yousuf Karsh was born on the 23rd December 1908 in Mardin, American Turkey and dies on July 13th 2002 in Boston, Massachusetts). Yousuf was the most known and greatest portrait photographer of the 20th century. Karsh photographed famous men and women of politics , Hollywood, and the arts, from Albert Einstein, Sir Winston Churchill to Walt Disney and Audrey Hepburn. Throughout most of his career he used the 8×10 bellows Calumet ( 1997.o318) camera. Now a days his work is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The National Portrait Gallery in London, among many others. The last print of Karsh was sold for $42,5000.00.

Analysis

Visual

This image is a portrait of Audrey Hepburn, she is waring a black turtle neck, and her hair is up in a high ponytail, She is looking to the side showing her side profile. The image is in black and white which makes sense since this image was taken in 1956.

Technical

Aperture- f/22

Shutter speed- 1/500

Angle- eye level

Half Body

Contextual

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“The French novelist Colette picked her out of a ballet line-up 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 experiences during the Second World War. Years later, in the Kremlin, Chairman Brezhnev agreed to sit for me only if I made him as beautiful as Audrey Hepburn.”