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Also Known As Karsh of Ottawa
Born December 23, 1908 • Mardin • Turkey
Died July 13, 2002 (aged 93) • Boston • Massachusetts

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Yousuf Karsh, self-portrait, 1988.
Winston Churchill
Ossip Zadkine, photograph by Yousuf Karsh, 1965.
Alan Francis Brooke (Lord Alanbrooke), chief of the British Imperial General Staff during World War II.
Clement Attlee
Yousuf Karsh: Lord Beveridge
René Clair
Eden, photograph by Yousuf Karsh
Max Ernst
Giacometti, Alberto
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