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Portrait in Light and Shadow tells, for the first time ever, the full story of how a young Armenian immigrant living in Ottawa in the 1930s became the most prominent portrait photographer of the twentieth century. In this groundbreaking biography, produced with the full cooperation of the Karsh estate, acclaimed writer and historian Maria Tippett reveals the consummate skill with which Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002) built and maintained his reputation over six decades. With each photograph he took, he relied not only on brilliant mastery of the camera and behind-the-scenes technique but also on gracious manners and shrewd psychological insight into human nature. Tippett explores Karsh's fascination withpower, authority, and fame, the entrepreneurial skills of his two wives (and business managers),and the carefully cultivated patronage of the Canadian government.
Portrait in Light and Shadow is illustrated throughout with black-and-white images from the artist's life and work, including his iconic photographs of Winston Churchill, Queen Elizabeth II, Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw, Humphrey Bogart, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Crawford, Ernest Hemingway, Pope Pius XII, Nikita Khrushchev, John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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