Yousuf Karsh - Martin Luther King - 1967 - PhotoGravure

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Yousuf Karsh - Martin Luther King - 1967 - PhotoGravure:
$55.00

Yousuf Karsh - Martin Luther King - 1967 - PhotoGravure _________________Yousuf Karsh photo gravure published in 1967.\"Martin Luther King\"King was 33 yeasr old when this was taken
This is a sheet fed (screen), production gravure in excellent condition.condition: excellent quality gravure plates, printed on heavy weight, matte finish paper
Available acid free dry mounted at no charge - let me know
Print Type: Photogravure
Paper size: 9.5\" X 12\" or available mounted 12\"X16\"
Image size: 9.5\" X 12\"
Verso: blank
Plate Printer: Enschede, Haarlem - the Netherlands
Print Year: 1967Year Created: 1962
Source: HC Publication

About the artist from Wikipedia:

Yousuf Karsh, CC (Armenian; December 23, 1908 – July 13, 2002) was an Armenian-Canadian photographer, and one of the most famous and accomplished portrait photographers of all time.

Yousuf or Josuf (his given Armenian name was Hovsep)[citation needed] Karsh was born in Mardin, a city in the Eastern Ottoman Empire (present Turkey). He grew up during the Armenian Genocide where he wrote, \"I saw relatives massacred; my sister died of starvation as we were driven from village to village.\" At the age of 16, his parents sent Yousuf to live with his uncle George Nakash, a photographer in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Karsh briefly attended school there and assisted in his uncle’s studio. Nakash saw great potential in his nephew and in 1928 arranged for Karsh to apprentice with portrait photographer John Garo in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. His brother, Malak Karsh, was also a photographer famous for the image of logs floating down the river on the Canadian one dollar bill.

Karsh returned to Canada four years later, eager to make his mark. In 1931 he started working with another photographer, John Powls, in his studio on the second floor of the Hardy Arcade at 130 Sparks Street in Ottawa, Ontario, close to Parliament Hill. When Powls retired in 1933, Karsh took over the studio. Karsh\'s first solo exhibition was in 1936 in the Drawing Room of the Château Laurier hotel. He moved his studio into the hotel in 1973, and it remained there until he retired in 1992.

Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King discovered Karsh and arranged introductions with visiting dignitaries for portrait sittings. Karsh\'s work attracted the attention of varied celebrities, but his place in history was sealed on 30 December 1941 when he photographed Winston Churchill, after Churchill gave a speech to Canadian House of Commons in Ottawa.

The image of Churchill brought Karsh international prominence, and is claimed to be the most reproduced photographic portrait in history. In 1967, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and in 1990 was promoted to Companion.

Of the 100 most notable people of the century, named by the International Who\'s Who [2000], Karsh had photographed 51. Karsh was also the only Canadian to make the list.

In the late 1990s Karsh moved to Boston and on July 13, 2002, aged 93, he died at Boston\'s Brigham and Women\'s Hospital after complications following surgery. He was interred in Notre Dame Cemetery in Gravures:

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