{"id":17224,"date":"2020-04-19T05:44:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T09:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=17224"},"modified":"2020-04-17T15:05:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T19:05:02","slug":"yousuf-russia-life-1963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/yousuf-russia-life-1963\/","title":{"rendered":"Yousuf Russia LIFE 1963"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17225\" style=\"width: 179px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Karsh-in-Russia-LIFE-Sept.-13-1963.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17225\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17225\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Karsh-in-Russia-LIFE-Sept.-13-1963-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Krushchev by Karsh in LIFE magazine September 13, 1963<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. One of our most famous portrait photographers of all time was <a href=\"https:\/\/karsh.org\">Karsh<\/a> of Ottawa. Some members strive to collect portraits taken by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yousuf_Karsh\">Karsh<\/a>. One member &#8211; Shelton Chen &#8211; even wrote and published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acadiabooks.com\/new-ssrch2.php?pageNum_Recordset1=346&amp;totalRows_Recordset1=30988&amp;totalRows...\">book<\/a> of Karsh Portraits.<\/p>\n<p>In 1963, LIFE magazine in New York devoted an entire issue to Russia. Beginning on page 72 of this <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=N1IEAAAAMBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">September 13, 1963<\/a> issue is the essay and portraits captured by the great man, Yousuf Karsh.<\/p>\n<p>My thanks to George Dunbar for unearthing this exciting issue, fresh in 1963, just weeks before the tragic death of president <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_F._Kennedy\">John F Kennedy<\/a> and his replacement by vice-president <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Presidency_of_Lyndon_B._Johnson\">Lyndon B Johnson<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. One of our most famous portrait photographers of all time was Karsh of Ottawa. Some members strive to collect portraits taken by Karsh. One member &#8211; Shelton Chen &#8211; even wrote and published a book of Karsh Portraits. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/yousuf-russia-life-1963\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[712,3096,425,102,3095,654],"class_list":["post-17224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-karsh","tag-krushchev","tag-life","tag-magazine","tag-potraits","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17229,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17224\/revisions\/17229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}