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Karsh is history

Karsh is history

DVD 2009

Ernest Hemingway, Martin Luther King, Walt Disney, Einstein, Fidel Castro, JFK, Winson Churchill, Picasso, Glen Gould, Audrey Hepburn: we all know that single, most famous picture of every one of them. Behind the camera was the legendary photographer Yousuf Karsh. This film illuminates the multiple meanings ordinary people as well as critics, curators and philosophers attach to portrait photographs and - through the prism of these meanings - port...

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Karsh, Yousuf, 1908-2002
Photographers Canada
Portrait photographers Canada
Portrait photography
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Description:
1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in
digital
optical
video file
DVD video
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Cover title: Karsh is history [DVD] : Yousuf Karsh and portrait photography
Yousuf Karsh and portrait biography [DVD]
Notes:
Also released in French as: Karsh, un regard sur l'histoire
Directors of photography, Philippe Lavalette, Stefan Ivanov; editor, Heidi Haines; original music composed by Ramachandra Borcar
With: Geoffrey Batchen, Estrellita Karsh and Annie Leibovitz
DVD-R ; widescreen
FIFA 2009, award for best Canadian work. Nominated for 2 Gemini awards, 2010
Control Number:
856575
Other Authors:
Ciné Fête
Crooks, Harold, 1943-
Haines, Heidi
Hillel, Joseph
Ivanov, Stefan, 1954-
Lavalette, Philippe
McLaren, Ian
Productions Grand Nord
Ramasutra (Musician)
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