YOUSUF KARSH
Yousuf Karsh
du mer. 16 oct. 2013 au dim. 26 janv. 2014
• 11:00 - 18:00
Tarif : 7 €
The Mona Bismarck American Center
galerie d'art
34 avenue de New York
75116 Paris FR
"Chaque homme, chaque femme cache un secret; en tant que photographe, mon devoir est de le révéler, si je le peux". Yousuf Karsh
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YOUSUF KARSH un maitre du portrait
l’homme qui shootait plus vite que son hombre
vous avez forcément vu au moins une de ses photos, il est un des plus grand portraitiste du 20eme siècle et il a photographié toutes les plus grandes stars et les personnages importants de son époque.
L’exposition qui aura lieu au Mona Bismarck American Center for art & culture réunira plus de soixante des portraits les plus saisissants du photographe, portraits de personnes célèbres et de personnages officiels. Des photographies originales seront ainsi présentées à côté d’archives issues des couvertures que Karsh réalisa pour Life et Paris Match, témoignant ainsi de la transformation de ses portraits intimistes en icônes publiques.
La remarquable carrière artistique de Karsh n’a eu d’égale que les vies extraordinaires de ceux qu’il a photographiés. L’exposition Karsh célèbrera l’exceptionnelle contribution de cet artiste à l’élaboration de la mémoire personnelle et historique du vingtième siècle.
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Yousuf Karsh
au Mona Bismarck American Center
Photos d'icônes
YOUSUF KARSH: ICONS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Oct 16, 2013 — Jan 26, 2014
Mona Bismarck American Center
34, avenue de New York
75116 paris
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Exposition au Mona Bismarck American Center for Aert & Culture à Paris
du 16 octobre 2013 au 26 janvier 2014
From October 16, 2013 through January 26, 2014 the Mona Bismarck American Center will present YOUSUF KARSH: ICONS OF THE 20TH CENTURY, featuring approximately 70 of the photographer’s most striking portraits of French and American dignitaries and luminaries, juxtaposing Frank Lloyd Wright with Le Corbusier, for example, and Charles de Gaulle with Dwight Eisenhower.
Original photographs rarely seen in France, as well as some archival material including Life and Paris Match covers, will demonstrate how Karsh’s remarkable artistic career transformed intimate portraits into public icons, making a deep impression on personal and historical memory throughout the 20th century.
During his lifetime, Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002) held over 15,000 sittings and produced over 150,000 negatives. Among these were portraits of some of the most exhilarating French and American political, cultural and intellectual figures, including Ernest Hemingway, François Mauriac, Grace Kelly, John F. Kennedy, Christian Dior and Man Ray.
Yousuf Karsh is best known for his portraits of Winston Churchill in Life Magazine. Karsh was born in Turkey and lived there until the age of 16, when he was sent to live with an uncle in Canada. His uncle was a photographer, who recognized his nephew’s talents and arranged for Karsh to apprentice with portrait photographer, John Garo, in Boston, Massachusetts.
Four years later Karsh returned to Canada where he opened his first studio. Luckily for Karsh he was soon discovered by Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King who introduced him to visiting dignitaries and arranged portrait sittings for these prominent individuals. This was how he met Winston Churchill and would go on to produce his memorable photograph for Life Magazine.
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L’exposition thématique et le hors-série s’organisent selon les rôles et professions de ces icônes du XXe siècle.
Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002), grand photographe canadien d’origine arménienne, fera ses premières armes auprès de son oncle, Georges Nakash, lui-même portraitiste réputé de Sherbrooke, ville de la province du Québec, avant de se perfectionner auprès de John Garo, de Boston (Mass., USA), photographe de l’aristocratie et des célébrités de ce siècle tout jeune.
Par la suite, il s’installera à Ottawa, où il acquit rapidement une réputation qui deviendra internationale.
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Yousuf Karsh - Icônes du XXe Siècle
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| Walt Disney 1956 |
"Chaque homme, chaque femme cache un secret; en tant que photographe, mon devoir est de le révéler, si je le peux". Yousuf Karsh
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| Fidel Castro |
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Mona Bismarck American Center for art & culture
34 avenue de New York
75116 Paris
Du 16 octobre 2013 au 26 janvier 2014. Du mercredi au dimanche de 11h à 18h
Accessible Sourds / Malentendants
Ligne 9: Iéna (219m)
Ligne 9: Alma Marceau (392m)
BUS :
72, 80
4 rue de longchamp - 75016 paris (230m)
quai branly - 75007 paris (264m)
Payant
Adultes: 7€
Tarif réduit: 5€*
Enfants de moins de 12 ans: Entrée gratuite
* Tarif réduit pour les enfants de 12 à 17 ans, le chômeurs, les seniors (plus de 60 ans) et les étudiants (sur présentation d’un justificatif)
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Mona Bismarck American Center
01 47 23 38 88
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Mona Bismarck American Center for art & culture
34, avenue de New York 75116 Paris, France
+33 (0) 1 47 23 38 88
www.monabismarck.org
Exhibition opening hours
Wednesday through Sunday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Closed on holidays
Tickets and admission
Adults: 7€
Reduced price: € 5*
Children under the age of 12: Free
*Reduced price tickets for children from 12 to 17 years of age, unemployed, seniors (older than 60) and students (subject to presentation of supporting documentation).
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Alma-Marceau, Iéna, Trocadéro
Pont de l’Alma
72, 63, 92, 32, 82
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Journalist George Perry wrote in London’s Sunday Times that “…when the famous start thinking of immortality, they call for Karsh of Ottawa.”
In 1922, Yousuf Karsh’s family fled their home in Armenia to avoid Turkish persecution. Two years later the Karsh family sent their son Yousuf to live with an uncle in Canada. Here Karsh learned the basics of photography from his uncle, a professional photographer. When Karsh became a serious student he was sent to Boston to learn from his uncle’s friend, John H. Garo. While this apprenticeship was to only last for six months, Karsh stayed for three years learning the technical aspects of photography.
By 1931 Karsh left Boston and set up his own studio in Ottawa, the capital of Canada. Karsh hoped he would get an opportunity to photograph leading statesmen and international figures. Success was not immediate for the photographer, but experience gained from his work with the Ottawa Little Theatre helped him develop the dramatic lighting that is a hallmark of Karsh’s work.
Karsh had a gift for capturing the essence of his subject in the instant of his portrait. As Karsh wrote of his own work in Karsh Portfolio in 1967, “Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. The revelation, if it comes at all, will come in a small fraction of a second with an unconscious gesture, a gleam of the eye, a brief lifting of the mask that all humans wear to conceal their innermost selves from the world. In that fleeting interval of opportunity the photographer must act or lose his prize.”
