{"id":31009,"date":"2025-03-16T01:03:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T05:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=31009"},"modified":"2025-03-15T18:01:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T22:01:27","slug":"crime-and-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/crime-and-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"crime and photography &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31010\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31010\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31010\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lion-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Churchill 1941 by Karsh of Ottawa (courtesy of Wikipedia)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. &#8230; the Karsh Caper. In 1941, Karsh captured the essence of Churchill and called the portrait the &#8220;Roaring Lion&#8221;. In 1988, he donated the signed print to Chateau Laurier hotel in Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>A different copy of the photograph was swapped for the signed print in late 2021 or early \u00a02022. \u00a0By mid summer of 2022, the swap and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/ottawa\/article\/trial-to-begin-friday-for-man-accused-of-stealing-iconic-winston-churchill-portrait-from-chateau-laurier\/\">theft<\/a> were announced when Sotheby&#8217;s auctioned off the signed print to a person in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The print was returned to Canada in September 2024.<\/p>\n<p>This spring, Jeffrey Wood, was tried in Ottawa for the theft and found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/stolen-winston-churchill-photo-ottawa-italy-guilty-1.7482395\">guilty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My thanks to PHSC president Clint Hryhorijiw, and shortly after PHSC newsletter editor Patrick Gunn for the first announcement above (theft), and Cindy Motzenbecker of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miphs.org\/\">MiPHS<\/a> via Clint for the second link (guilty).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. &#8230; the Karsh Caper. In 1941, Karsh captured the essence of Churchill and called the portrait the &#8220;Roaring Lion&#8221;. In 1988, he donated the signed print to Chateau Laurier hotel in Ottawa. A different copy of the photograph was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/crime-and-photography\/\">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":[2435,712,205,495,585],"class_list":["post-31009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-churchill","tag-karsh","tag-ottawa","tag-photograph","tag-portrait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31009","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=31009"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31016,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31009\/revisions\/31016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}