Yousuf Karsh

Name: Yousuf Karsh
Address: New York, NY, US
Telephone: +19173619791

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03/27/2026

Happy Edward Steichen Day! The great man was born on this day in 1879. Edward and Joanne Steichen and Yousuf and Estrellita Karsh were good friends. Here are some less well known photographs of them. The Steichens with Tripod the beagle; rowing on their lake; Edward at home; Edward and Estrellita. From 1965 and 1967.

12/07/2022

An excuse to post Michel Platini as France reaches the World Cup quarter-finals. Platini was photographed in 1985 for “Paris Match.”

12/05/2022

Nine years since Nelson Mandela died. Showing the color portrait for a change.

12/02/2022

I’m a day late with this post. But. American businessman and Republican Party politician George Romney was photographed on December 1, in 1965. He was photographed during his tenure as Governor of Michigan, and Karsh’s Sitting notes say he was photographed for “Rockwell Standard and American Trucking Assn.” Rockwell was a major American manufacturing conglomerate involved in aircraft, the space industry, defense and commercial electronics, components in the automotive industry, printing presses, avionics and industrial products.

11/28/2022

November 26, 2022, marks the centenary of the birth of Charles Schulz. Schulz is especially beloved for Peanuts, which at its height was published daily in 2,600 papers in 75 countries, in 21 languages. In Karsh’s book “American Legends” Karsh wrote of the artist: “He presented me with America’s favorite beagle, a tiny velvet “Snoopy,” as a gift to my wife, and it remains among her favorite sentimental treasures.”

A copy of Karsh’s print of Schulz is in the collection of the Smithsonian NPG

11/22/2022

On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.

Karsh had photographed Kennedy in 1957 and 1960, when JFK was the senator for Massachusetts. “LIFE” Magazine’s memorial edition for John F. Kennedy after his death in 1963 featured this color portrait from the 1960 sitting, which had originally been made on assignment for “Parade” magazine.

11/21/2022

We posted this portrait of Edith Fenton a couple of months ago after a relative emailed to tell us about her. She worked as a nurse in Halifax, Canada, and was awarded for her work after the Halifax Explosion of 1917. A new eight minute animation about the disaster called “The Flying Sailor,” from Oscar-nominated directors Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby, and via the National Film Board of Canada, has just been released on “The New Yorker” video channel.

#1917

11/18/2022

The Decorative Arts Trust is a nonprofit organization with the mission to promote the study and appreciation of the decorative arts. They have just announced their 7th Annual Colloquium (registration opened today) featuring young scholars in the decorative arts field. One of their research grant recipients is studying the history of Butaca/Butaque chairs and will include this portrait of Josef Albers, seated in one of said chairs, to illustrate their research.

Albers is pictured here in 1966.

11/16/2022

Hollywood leading man Clark Gable died on November 16, 1960 (b. 1901). He had roles in more than 60 motion pictures in multiple genres during a career that lasted 37 years. Gable died of a heart attack at the age of 59; his final on-screen appearance was of an aging cowboy in The Misfits, released posthumously in 1961. He is pictured in 1948.

11/15/2022

Happy Georgia O’Keeffe day! The artist considered to be the “Mother of American Modernism,” was born on November 15, 1887. Karsh wrote of their Sitting: “I decided to photograph her as another friend had described her: ‘Georgia, her pure profile calm, clear; her sleek black hair drawn swiftly back into a tight knot at the nape of her neck; the strong white hands, touching and lifting everything, even the boiled eggs, as if they were living things – sensitive slow-moving hands, coming out of the black and white, always this black and white.’ This portrait hangs in her Abiquiu home, now a museum operated by the Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation.”

I’ve added a couple of frames to our digital database since we last celebrated her birthday. Enjoy! And follow !

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