Re: Karsh portraits
Hi;
Met his brother in Ottawa when I was working there about three years
ago. Again a very kind and gracious gentleman. And talented as well.
He autographed a couple of his books for me. It was one of the
highlights of the eight months I spent there.
Lasse Karlsson wrote:
Happened to find a free 190 page book of Karsh photography. ("Karsh" by University of
Toronto Press 1983.)
Interesting mirror of the times as well as many influential portraits of statesmen,
artists and the like. (Some of them very good, some of them slightly over- or
melo-dramatic.) I'll see if I can make use of some of his lighting techniques for some
b&w portraits.
There is a number of very good non-portrait shots as well.
Among others there is a photograph of a farmer in Regina, Canada, Must be close to you
then, William (Robb), in case you're reading.
Anyone who cares much for Karsh' shooting nowadays?
Lasse
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Re: Karsh portraits
I love the guy's work. Our CBC television network did a one hour bio of him a year or two ago, and two things hit me: First, he seemed to be a genuinely nice man. There was some footage of the man in his studio, and his calm, relaxed manner with his subjects was amazing. All of his subjects that they interviewed made mention of that; how good he made them feel, how he would carry on a conversation with them about their life, their work, whatever, all the while going about his business. It almost made them forget they were in a brighly lit studio with a big honking wooden camera stuck in there! The other thing, is that anyone could walk into his Ottawa studio for a portait, and that his prices were competetive with other photography studios in town. God, had I known that, I'd have made the pilgimage to Ottawa (only about 6 hours drive from here) to be immortalized by the man. I simply assumed that since he'd photographed the rich, famous and powerful world-wide, that his portraits would cost an arm and a leg. I was wrong. cheers, frank "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Karsh portraits Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 10:37:36 -0500 I like it. Remember his stuff is almost all large format work. -- _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.msn.com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca
Re: Karsh portraits
I like it. Remember his stuff is almost all large format work. -- Lasse Karlsson wrote: Anyone who cares much for Karsh' shooting nowadays? -- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com "You might as well accept people as they are, you are not going to be able to change them anyway."
Re: Karsh portraits
- Original Message - From: "Lasse Karlsson" Subject: Karsh portraits > Among others there is a photograph of a farmer in Regina, Canada, Must be close to you then, William (Robb), in case you're reading. That was actually taken outside of Regina. > > Anyone who cares much for Karsh' shooting nowadays? > I quite like his work. William Robb
Re: Karsh portraits
Hi,
Lasse Karlsson wrote:
>
> From: "Lasse Karlsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Happened to find a free 190 page book of Karsh photography. ("Karsh" by University
> > of Toronto Press 1983.)
> > Interesting mirror of the times as well as many influential portraits of
> > statesmen, artists and the like. (Some of them very good, some of them slightly
> > over- or melo-dramatic.) I'll see if I can make use of some of his lighting
> > techniques for some b&w portraits.
> > There is a number of very good non-portrait shots as well.
> > Among others there is a photograph of a farmer in Regina, Canada, Must be close to
> > you then, William (Robb), in case you're reading.
> > Anyone who cares much for Karsh' shooting nowadays?
> > Lasse
>
> Here's a link to the farmer picture.
>
> http://www.mfa.org/artemis/fullrecord.asp?oid=97569&did=700
Interesting landscape 8-) Does the horizon look tilted to you? Or can
you see the curve of the Earth when it's so featureless.
mike
Re: Karsh portraits
From: "Lasse Karlsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Happened to find a free 190 page book of Karsh photography. ("Karsh" by University
> of Toronto Press 1983.)
> Interesting mirror of the times as well as many influential portraits of statesmen,
> artists and the like. (Some of them very good, some of them slightly over- or
> melo-dramatic.) I'll see if I can make use of some of his lighting techniques for
> some b&w portraits.
> There is a number of very good non-portrait shots as well.
> Among others there is a photograph of a farmer in Regina, Canada, Must be close to
> you then, William (Robb), in case you're reading.
> Anyone who cares much for Karsh' shooting nowadays?
> Lasse
Here's a link to the farmer picture.
http://www.mfa.org/artemis/fullrecord.asp?oid=97569&did=700
Lasse
