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After a photographer's apprenticeship in Boston, Armenian-born Yousuf Karsh set up his own portrait studio in Ottawa because he yearned to photograph prominent men. Now a courtly 51, Karsh of Ottawa is as renowned as most of his subjects. Last week the Canadian capital paid the world's foremost portrait photographer the unusual compliment of an exhibition at the National Gallery...
...exhibition is Karsh's gallery of greatness-portraits of the 74 statesmen, artists, poets, scientists and philosophers, from the legions he has photographed, whom Karsh considers most qualified by their "concern and love for fellowman." He winnowed the number from his own wider selection of 96 world leaders in his best-selling (41,000 copies at $17.50) Portraits of Greatness, which was published last winter. Sir Winston Churchill alone still appears twice-in the celebrated 1942 defiant portrait that Karsh achieved by audaciously snitching the grumpy Churchill's cigar from his mouth, and in a 1955 elder statesman...
Canada's Yousuf Karsh (TIME, Feb. 3, 1947) is perhaps the world's most celebrated portrait photographer. Visitors to his exhibit of camera work at M.I.T. last week found him dabbling in what is, for Karsh, a brand new subject: alongside his famous portraits of Winston Churchill, Eleanor Roosevelt and Bernard Shaw hung an impressive series of industrial photographs done with the master's usual flair for drama. In a steel plant and an auto factory, he had found workers posed like ballerinas around a slender ribbon of steel, had photographed paint sprayers conferring like brain surgeons...
...Karsh first tried his hand at industrial work two years ago when he was asked by Canada's Atlas Steels, Ltd. to illustrate the firm's annual report. He discovered that he had to spend two or three days planning his shots, but could never ask a worker for permission to take his picture until just a few minutes beforehand: "Otherwise they would wash up, slick down their hair, and look most unnatural." He needed dozens of flashes for some shots; on others used only the glow of hot steel. Karsh was fascinated, went back a second time...
...Says Karsh: "It's more of a challenge than portraiture. And it's refreshing to deal with these workers, after all the tact you must use with the famous...