RARE! Portrait Photographer Yousuf Karsh Hand Signed 3X5 Card COA

  

"Portrait Photographer" Yousuf Karsh Hand Signed 3X5 Card. This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity. (December 23, 1908 - July 13, 2002), was an.

He has been described as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century. Survivor, Karsh migrated to Canada as a refugee.

By the 1930s he established himself as a significant photographer in Ottawa, where he lived most of his adult life, though he traveled extensively for work. Was a breakthrough point in his 60-year career, through which he took numerous photos of known political leaders, men and women of arts and sciences. Over 20 photos by Karsh appeared on the cover of. Magazine, until he retired in 1992. Yousuf Karsh was born to.

Parents Amsih Karsh, a merchant, and Bahai Nakash, on December 23, 1908 in. The city's Armenian population was largely.

His Armenian name, Hovsep, is a variant of. While Yousuf is the Arabic version of the same name.

He grew up during the. During which some of his family were murdered. Karsh and his family escaped to a refugee camp in. Syria in 1922 in a month-long journey with a. Of Karsh that he "thought of himself as an Armenian".

Although he was proud to be Canadian, Karsh was equally proud to be Armenian. Karsh was sent to Canada by his family. Quebec to live with his maternal uncle George Nakashian (Nakash), a portrait photographer. Karsh worked for, and was taught photography by his uncle. From 1928 to 1931, Karsh apprenticed in.

Garo, the most prominent Armenian photographer in America at the time who had made a name for himself photographing Boston celebrities.