KARSH

Yousuf karsh. Karsh02. Albert_Einstein_by_Yousuf_Karsh. Yousuf-karsh-mother-Teresa-portrait-1988-high-quality. Yousuf Karsh / Photographer. Across Cultures: Yousuf Karsh. © Yousuf Karsh/camera press "Yousuf Karsh is a photographer from a bygone age", writes stern-Artdirector Johannes Erler, "who looked for virtues such as power, courage, intelligence and genius in his photographs. " Just have a look at the pics here on this page and you know that Erler is indeed very right. He also shares the following story: "In a Boston hospital there is a room where doctors meet patients and their families to discuss the findings of their diagnosis.

It is a fateful room because the news is often bad. During his lifetime, Karsh donated a number of his most famous portraits to the hospital so they could be hung up in this room. And they are a real help, the doctors say because they encourage patients in their will to live. I know of no other photographs about which something like that has been said.

" Again and again I wondered: How did Karsh do that? Yousuf Karsh stern Fotografie Nr. 71.