{"id":18684,"date":"2023-05-19T16:37:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T20:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=18684"},"modified":"2023-06-06T13:47:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T17:47:27","slug":"yousuf-karsh-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/yousuf-karsh-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Yousuf Karsh Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color\">Yousuf Karsh (Armenian, 1908-2002)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A refugee of the Armenian genocide, Karsh emigrated to Canada in 1923. From 1928 to 1931 he apprenticed in Boston under John Garo, a prominent Armenian photographer residing in the US. Karsh opened his first studio in Ottawa in 1932. Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King commissioned him to take portraits of government guests, including Winston Churchill. Karsh would continue photographing famous people throughout his career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karsh has been awarded many degrees, including Doctor of Law from Queen\u2019s University in Ontario, Doctor of Fine Arts from the University of Hartford, and Doctor of Humane Letters from Yeshiva University in New York. Karsh\u2019s work resides in many major museums nationally and internationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"713\" height=\"900\" data-id=\"17515\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/2009.2.1-e1679061663711-713x900.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/2009.2.1-e1679061663711-713x900.webp 713w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/2009.2.1-e1679061663711-238x300.webp 238w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/2009.2.1-e1679061663711-768x969.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/2009.2.1-e1679061663711-1217x1536.webp 1217w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/2009.2.1-e1679061663711-159x200.webp 159w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/2009.2.1-e1679061663711-498x628.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/2009.2.1-e1679061663711.webp 1521w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Yousef Karsh, <em>Georgia O\u2019Keefe<\/em>, 1956, silver gelatin print, 9 1\/2 x 7 1\/2 in., Gift of Robert Flynn Johnson in Memory of Robert Andrew Johnson, 2009.2.1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yousuf Karsh (Armenian, 1908-2002) A refugee of the Armenian genocide, Karsh emigrated&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"parent":1152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-18684","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19264,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18684\/revisions\/19264"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}