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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Yousuf Karsh
    sub title: life & work
  name:
    name part: Rombout, Melissa
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  name:
    name part: Art Canada Institute
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Biography
  genre: Biographies.
  genre: Illustrated works.
  genre: Ouvrages illustrés.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 183 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 28 cm
  abstract: "Yousuf Karsh (1908?2002) is widely recognized as one of the leading portrait photographers of the twentieth century. Arriving in Canada alone in 1924 as a fifteen-year-old displaced refugee of the Armenian genocide, Karsh mastered the art of portraiture through apprenticeships in stylish studios of the Pictorialist age. With his camera, he sought to capture the essential nature of his subjects in what he called the ?elusive moment of truth.? Over the course of six decades, ?Karsh of Ottawa? created a unique visual chronicle of celebrated legends and so-called ordinary sitters, becoming a celebrity in his own right. In Yousuf Karsh: Life & Work, author Melissa Rombout introduces Karsh to new audiences by exploring his artistic choices in the wider context of twentieth-century portraiture practice. His vast body of work?encompassing more than 15,000 portrait sittings?spans decades of changing photographic technologies. Karsh made iconic portraits of leading political, scientific, industry, and cultural figures such as Winston Churchill, Queen Elizabeth II, Martin Luther King, Jean Paul Riopelle, Andy Warhol, Margaret Atwood, Robert Oppenheimer, and Nelson Mandela. This book offers a compelling examination of Karsh as an image-maker in every sense of the term. Taking an in-depth look at his acclaimed oeuvre, Rombout considers how Karsh presented ideals of greatness, beauty, and order as timeless individual qualities in the face of collective alienation, fragmentation, and relentless change." --Amazon.
  table of contents: Biography -- Key works -- Significance & critical issues -- Style & technique -- Sources & resources -- Where to see.
  note: by Melissa Rombout.
  note: "The Canadian Art Library."
  note: Issued also in electronic format.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-cn---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Karsh, Yousuf
      name part: 1908-2002
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Karsh, Yousuf
      name part: 1908-2002
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Portrait photographers
    geographic: Canada
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Karsh, Yousuf
      name part: 1908-2002
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Karsh, Yousuf
      name part: 1908-2002
    topic: Critique et interpřtation
  subject:
    topic: Photographes portraitistes
    geographic: Canada
    genre: Biographies
  classification: TR140.K18 R66 2025
  classification: 779/.2092
  classification: cci1icc
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Photographs. Selections
    name:
      name part: Karsh, Yousuf,
      name part: 1908-2002
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Yousuf Karsh
    name:
      name part: Rombout, Melissa.
    origin info:
      publisher: Toronto, ON : Art Canada Institute = Institut de l'art canadien, 2025
    identifier: (OCoLC)1506403550
  identifier: 9781487103781
  identifier: 1487103786
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 250528
    record change date: 20260221223044.7
    record identifier: in00005692188
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng