KARSH IS HISTORY, KARSH - Un regard sur l histoire

Ernest Hemingway, Martin Luther King, Walt Disney, Einstein, Fidel Castro, JFK, Winston Churchill, Picasso, Glen Gould, Audrey Hepburn: we all know that single, most famous picture of every one of them. Behind the camera was the legendary photographer Yousuf Karsh. The film illuminates the multiple meanings ordinary people as well as critics, curators and philosophers attach to portrait photographs and - through the prism of these meanings - portrays the singular career of Yousuf Karsh the ultimate mythmaker.

Un portrait du légendaire photographe Yousuf Karsh qui tisse un commentaire illustré stupéfiant sur la photographie vue dune perspective contemporaine. Le film fait la lumière sur les multiples significations que le grand public, de même que les critiques, les conservateurs et les philosophes attribuent aux portraits photographiques et à travers le prisme de ces significations présente la singulière carrière de Yousuf Karsh, le créateur de mythes.

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Film & Animation

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• Karsh
• Yousuf Karsh
• Photographer
• Portrait photographer
• Photographe
• Photographe de portraits