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Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002): Ernest Hemingway.

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Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002): Ernest Hemingway.

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YOUSUF KARSH - ERNEST HEMINGWAY, 1957. Silver gelatin (16x12 inches, with white borders). Mounted and framed. Stamped on the back. COPYRIGHT. THE FOLLOWING CREDIT LINE MUST BE USED. (C) KARSH, OTTAWA. In Karsh's words from the 1957 sitting: “I expected to meet in the author a composite of the heroes of his novels. Instead, in 1957, at his home Finca Vigía, near Havana, I found a man of peculiar gentleness, the shyest man I ever photographed - a man cruelly battered by life, but seemingly invincible. He was still suffering from the effects of a plane accident that occurred during his fourth safari to Africa. I had gone the evening before to La Floridita, Hemingway’s favorite bar, to do my ‘homework’ and sample his favorite concoction, the daiquiri. But one can be overprepared! When, at nine the next morning, Hemingway called from the kitchen, ‘What will you have to drink?’ my reply was, I thought, letter-perfect: ‘Daiquiri, sir.’ Good God, Karsh,’ Hemingway remonstrated, ‘at this hour of the day!’” Yousuf Karsh was a Canadian photographer (1908 - 2002) and is considered one of the most renowned portrait photographer of our time. He has perceptively photographed the statesmen, artists, and literary and scientific figures that have shaped our lives in the 20th century. Known for his ability to transform “the human face into legend,” many of the portraits that he created have become virtually the image of the great man or woman they portray, whether Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway, Albert Einstein, Georgia O’Keefe or Helen Keller.