KARSH

A FIFTY-YEAR RETROSPECIVE

By and SIGNED and DATED by Yousuf Karsh, A NEW YORK GRAPHIC SOCIETY BOOK, LITTLE BROWN AND COMPANY, BOSTON, FIRST EDITION, 1983. This 10 ¾” x 11 ½” silver-stamped red-cloth-covered unpaginated hardbound book is in very good condition. Some minimal wear to the dust jacket (one horizontal scratch, bottom right corner of the front cover and small indentations on the spine [dust jacket only - interior is in excellent condition]).  Photo-illustrated, unclipped glossy-paper dust jacket is in very good condition with some scuffing and rubbing. Internally, other than the SIGNATURE OF PHOTOGRAPHER-AUTHOR YOUSUF KARSH with date 1983, despite the passage of 33 years, pages are bright, and clean; binding is tight. Hinges are solid; book is square.

PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED with the photographic portraits of YOUSUF KARSH. A Retrospective including excerpted materials from prior Karsh books published from 1959 through 1978. Volume includes many of the master photographer's portraits of artists, statesmen, actors, musicians, scientists and authors as well as examples of his assignments and a series of his hands photos. Each photograph is accompanied by a brief Karsh penned biographical piece on the subject and personal reminiscence about the person or the session. Among the portraits are: Ansel Adams, Muhammad Ali, Walter Cronkite, Max Ernst, Clark Gable, Audrey Hepburn, Helen Keller, Marx Brothers, Henry Moore, Man Ray, Ben Shahn, Elizabeth Taylor, Andy Warhol, Herman Wouk, Tennessee Williams, Ernest Hemingway, Edward Steichen, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, Fidel Castro, Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, Georgia O'Keefe, Pope John Paul II, JFK, George Bernard Shaw and more.