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Yousuf Karsh



In 1932 Karsh owned a studio in Ottawa where he began building an international reputation for dignified, faultlessly detailed likenesses of the world' s great people.

Winston Churchill refused to remove cigar; he grabbed it

Made Joan Miro change clothes

Put Nikita Khrushchev in fur coat

key2.gif (90 bytes) Harsh Karsh made sitters pose his way.