{"id":20864,"date":"2021-06-21T01:34:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T05:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=20864"},"modified":"2021-06-21T15:03:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T19:03:29","slug":"canadian-eh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/canadian-eh\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian, eh?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Karsh from May 1945 issue of Popular Photography<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. For the most part, Canada is a nation of immigrants. When I was a kid, we were part of the British commonwealth (to the dismay of Quebecers).* Many of us could trace our roots back to the UK or Europe.<\/p>\n

We are all familiar with the famous shot of Churchill by Yousuf Karsh<\/a> of Ottawa. His portraits are world \u00a0famous and hang in museums and art houses world wide. Like most of us in Canada, he was an immigrant. Karsh<\/a>\u00a0was born of Armenian parents in the Ottoman Empire (it is now an area in Turkey).<\/p>\n

He was sent to Canada to avoid death in the Armenian genocide (see Jamie Day Fleck’s excellent film titled ‘Photos by Kirk<\/a>‘) and landed in Sherbrooke Quebec with an uncle who was a portrait photographer. He was first taught photography by his uncle before moving to Boston for further lessons and employment by the Armenian photographer John Garo.<\/p>\n

In the early 1930s, Karsh moved to Ottawa, Ontario. His iconic portrait of Churchill in 1941 during WW2 was the start of his world wide recognition as a top notch portrait photographer.<\/p>\n

A few years ago, PHSC member and serious photography collector, Shelton Chen of Hit Camera here in the big smoke published his coffee table book of Karsh portraits.<\/p>\n

PHSC Member and good friend, George Dunbar, happened across this 22 page article in the May, 1945 issue of Popular Photography<\/a> and shared it with us for all to see. The story of Karsh begins on page 19.<\/p>\n

*We have our own flag and constitution now, but we still share the Queen with England. Her representative here is the Governor General – and for many years, each one appointed has been a Canadian citizen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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