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[Karsh, Yousuf - Interview]
Series title:60 Minutes : [excerpt]Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1977-01Item number (ISN):314077Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:KARSH, YousufAccession:1998-0050Media:FilmPart:1 of 1Production date:1977-01Release date:1977-06-30Production company:CBS Inc.Production credit:producer, Joseph Wershba; interviewer, Morley SaferDescription:Morley Safer interviews photographer Yousuf Karsh at his Ottawa home. Karsh discusses: how he started his life in Ottawa in 1941; the way he photographed so many prominent people; that he was invited to Parliament by William Lyon Mackenzie King to take the photo of Winston Churchill; how he provoked Churchill into making the expression that has made that portrait famous; why he chose to photograph Pablo Casals from the back, bent on his cello, to give a sense of the intensity of the musician and the enormous dimension of his talent; his most famous portraits; his approach to the photographs of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, Princess Grace and Prince Rainier, President John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev, Jacques Cousteau, Norman Mailer, Fidel Castro, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Pope John XXIII, Albert Einstein and Helen Keller. <10mn>Language:EnglishDetailed holdings information: -
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