Description: We combine shipping. Authenticity Guarantee: You'll receive a signed Authenticity Guarantee with each photo/print. We are buyers and sellers of fine art photography. All our photos/prints are 100% original, produced the year shown and NOT a current reproduction created for resale. If you are not completely satisfied for any reason, simply return for a full refund, no questions asked. Our 4 ply mounting board is the finest manufactured for today’s museum and fine art professionals. Made from 100% virgin cotton fibers.About the Photographer: Yousuf Karsh, one of the prominent Armenian-Canadian photographers was famously known for his portrait photography. He was born in Mardin, a city in the eastern part of Ottoman Empire (Turkey). He grew up in the era of the Armenian Genocide and when he was 16; his parents propelled him to start living along with his uncle Georg Nakash, also a photographer in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Karsh attended school for a short time and remained busy in supporting his uncle with the studio work. Nakash saw the capacity of his nephew in the field and in 1928 arranged for him an internship under a great portrait living in Boston, named John Garo. In 1931, in order to make his name, Yousuf Karsh came back to Canada and started working with John Powl, in his studio. He eventually took over the studio when Powl retired few years later. In 1936, he had his debut exhibition in Château Laurier hotel’s Drawing Room. Later he shifted his studio to this hotel and lived and worked there till 1992. Karsh was discovered by the Canadian Prime Minister, Mackenzie King and he introduced Karsh to the visiting notables for portrait sittings. His work started gathering attention yet the turning point came when he clicked on Winston Churchill, in 1941 as Churchill delivered an oration to the Canadian House of Commons in Ottawa. This remained the highly reproduced portrait in the history. He was one of the people making the list for the hundred most prominent people of the century, titled by the International Who’s Who (2000) with he himself photographing 51 people mentioned on the list. Karsh had exceptional skills with the studio lights. His unique work was his ability of illuminating the subject’s hands separately. Most of his photographs were taken on 8×10 bellows Calumet camera. He clicked photos of various distinguished celebrities of his times. He was mentioned in The Sunday Times in following words “when the famous start thinking of immortality, they call for Karsh of Ottawa”. Title: David Rockefeller Portrait Size of photo about: 9" Wide 12" High Border: No border, full bleed Photo Type: Sheet fed Photogravure, made from original negative. Overall size on white mounting board: 20" X 16" Print Origin: Switzerland Finish: Gloss FinishDate of Negative: 1990 - 1991Date of Print: 1992Subject: Yousuf Karsh photography Powered by SixBit's eCommerce Solution
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Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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Subject: portrait
Color Type: Color
Photographer: Yousuf Karsh
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Style: Realism
Production Technique: Photogravure
Date of Creation: 1992
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Size: See Listing
Region of Origin: Europe
Personalize: No
Unit of Sale: Single-Piece Work
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Year of Production: 1992
Medium: Photogravure
Print Surface: Paper
Printing Technique: Photogravure
Original/Reproduction: Original Print
Original/Reprint: Original Print
Framing: Unframed
Modified Item: No
Country/Region of Manufacture: Switzerland
Time Period Manufactured: 1992
Signed: No
Size Type/Largest Dimension: See Listing
Type: Photograph
