The Most Famous
PHOTOGRAPHERS from Turkey
This page contains a list of the greatest Turkish Photographers. The pantheon dataset contains 105 Photographers, 1 of which were born in Turkey. This makes Turkey the birth place of the 18th most number of Photographers behind India and Latvia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Turkish Photographers of all time. This list of famous Turkish Photographers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Yousuf Karsh (1908 - 2002)
With an HPI of 56.46, Yousuf Karsh is the most famous Turkish Photographer. His biography has been translated into 35 different languages on wikipedia.
Yousuf Karsh, FRPS (December 23, 1908 – July 13, 2002) was an Armenian-Canadian photographer known for his portraits of notable individuals. He has been described as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century. An Armenian genocide survivor, Karsh migrated to Canada as a refugee. By the 1930s he established himself as a significant photographer in Ottawa, where he lived most of his adult life, though he traveled extensively for work. His iconic 1941 photograph of Winston Churchill was a breakthrough point in his career, through which he took numerous photos of known political leaders, men and women of arts and sciences. Over 20 photos by Karsh appeared on the cover of Life magazine, until he retired in 1993.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as photographers born between 1908 and 1908. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased photographers include Yousuf Karsh.
