KARSH: American Legends.

by Yousuf Karsh

Dust jacket has wear and a scuff on lower corner , the book is in good condition!

Genres: Photography, Art

Hardcover

First published October 1, 1992

Reviews

[Grant · Rating 3 out of 5]

Karsh remains brilliant, but I didn't feel like this is the strongest collection, with most of the shots being taken on assignment roughly around 1991. While his colour work here is beautifully soft and warm, there just isn't quite the magic there that some of the older portraits have. I wondered if a big part of that was simply due to the passage of time, with people being media trained by that point, whereas his older photos coaxing craggy, curmudgeonly politicians or mercurial artists understandably conveyed more energy and charisma.

Many of the portraits that are more striking are of artists, or of people Karsh had encountered before. There are some interesting juxtapositions between warm, affable colour photographs and edgier or more solemn monochrome portraits of the same subjects from the same sittings that I wished would have been available for more of the subjects of the book.

[Peter · Rating 4 out of 5]

(pre-Goodreads)

Enjoyed it.

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