Yousuf Karsh dead, alas

[Theophylact]

Karsh of Ottawa, one of the great portrait photographers of the 20th Century, died yesterday at 93.

A gallery of his portraits:http://www.sackville.ednet.ns.ca/art...rsh/index.html

and (probably) his most famous one:

Awesome. Looks like a photograph.

[Germ]

Heard about that. Very sad, but he lived a long life. The man was a real artist.

*shahani...........it is a photograph.

[Knothead]

Karsh was one the finest camera artists of all time. What a life he had!

He said that he got "that look" on Churchill's face by boldly walking right up to him, grabbing the cigar out of Churchill's hand, then recording the result!

Here's a painting I did based on that image.

[sharder8]

ROFLMAO!

Good one Knot!!!

Harder

[ClubMed]

I know some of his photographs, but I didn't know who he was. Thanks for the link, it's a shame to see talented people pass away, but I guess his time had come.

Originally posted by Knothead
Karsh was one the finest camera artists of all time. What a life he had!

He said that he got "that look" on Churchill's face by boldly walking right up to him, grabbing the cigar out of Churchill's hand, then recording the result!

Here's a painting I did based on that image.

Hey, where'd you get that banana?