Taylor Bieschke
Image Making II
Yousuf Karsh
Yousuf Karsh is a portrait photographer. He is best known for his shots of Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemmingway and Audrey Hepburn. He was asked to shoot countless icons in film, politics, and literature during his time as a photographer. Yousuf was often asked to take photos of his subjects. Only early is his career did he have to ask to take his photos, but once the iconic shot of Winston Churchill was printed by Life, he no longer had to go out looking for work. The work came to him.
I personally, have always found portraits interesting. A photographer can make a person into who they really are just by timing a photo correctly. Before our lecture in class, I had never heard of Karsh, but I had seen plenty of his work and just not realized it. All his photos are very dramatic whether they have soft …show more content…
He arrived in North America in 1925 and began an apprenticeship with John H. Garo, one of the best portraitist, in Boston the next year after showing some success with a camera. Garo had Yousuf study art by painters like Rembrandt and Velázquez, and although Yousuf never learned to paint, studying classical artists helped him develop techniques for lighting and composition. Yousuf would remain with Garo for the next three years learning photography and development techniques while meeting some of the leaders in the industry at the time like Arthur Fielder and Serge Koussevitzky.
Yousuf then moved back to Canada and opened his own studio in Ottawa. After some struggle to remain in his studio, he was brought, by a friend, to the Ottawa Little Theater where he was introduced to artificial lighting. Garo had taught him to use natural light, but this often took hours of waiting for the correct conditions to present and often, they would not. Yousuf learned that artificial light could be used to manipulate create or intensify emotion in a
Image Making II
Yousuf Karsh
Yousuf Karsh is a portrait photographer. He is best known for his shots of Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemmingway and Audrey Hepburn. He was asked to shoot countless icons in film, politics, and literature during his time as a photographer. Yousuf was often asked to take photos of his subjects. Only early is his career did he have to ask to take his photos, but once the iconic shot of Winston Churchill was printed by Life, he no longer had to go out looking for work. The work came to him.
I personally, have always found portraits interesting. A photographer can make a person into who they really are just by timing a photo correctly. Before our lecture in class, I had never heard of Karsh, but I had seen plenty of his work and just not realized it. All his photos are very dramatic whether they have soft …show more content…
He arrived in North America in 1925 and began an apprenticeship with John H. Garo, one of the best portraitist, in Boston the next year after showing some success with a camera. Garo had Yousuf study art by painters like Rembrandt and Velázquez, and although Yousuf never learned to paint, studying classical artists helped him develop techniques for lighting and composition. Yousuf would remain with Garo for the next three years learning photography and development techniques while meeting some of the leaders in the industry at the time like Arthur Fielder and Serge Koussevitzky.
Yousuf then moved back to Canada and opened his own studio in Ottawa. After some struggle to remain in his studio, he was brought, by a friend, to the Ottawa Little Theater where he was introduced to artificial lighting. Garo had taught him to use natural light, but this often took hours of waiting for the correct conditions to present and often, they would not. Yousuf learned that artificial light could be used to manipulate create or intensify emotion in a