MFA EXHIBIT CAPTURES ESSENCE OF CELEBRITY – KARSH PHOTOGRAPHY RETROSPECTIVE OPENS THIS WEEK
Boston Channel.com
September 22, 2008
USA
BOSTON — His specialty was capturing the essence of some of the
world’s most powerful and famous people on film.
Now, photographer Yousef Karsh’s work has been captured in a new
exhibit at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts which opens this week.
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Turkish artist
who began his photographic training in Boston, the MFA is presenting
"Karsh 100: A Biography In Images."
The exhibit features more than 100 of Karsh’s iconic photographs and
personal mementos.
It includes photos of presidents, scientists, artists, writers
and musicians, including Jacques Cousteau, Georgia O’Keefe, Ernest
Hemingway and Sophia Loren.
Karsh was born in 1908 in present-day Turkey. His family fled the
Armenian Genocide and he ended up living with an uncle in Canada.
The uncle was a photographer who noticed Karsh’s early talent and sent
him to apprentice with portrait photographer John Garo in Boston in
1928. He lived and worked in the Hub for four years before returning
to Canada where he established a studio and embarked on a career
that included photographing portraits of some of the most celebrated
personalities of the era.
His career was launched with a classic portrait of Winston Churchill
in 1941.
He was considered a master of studio lights and his work is housed in
the permanent collections of some of the most well-known world museums.
The exhibit will run from Sept. 23, 2008 to Jan. 19, 2009 in the Rabb
Gallery of the MFA.
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