PHOTOGRAPHER

Yousuf Karsh

1908 - 2002

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yousuf Karsh has received more than 1,169,465 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Yousuf Karsh is the 25th most popular photographer (up from 32nd in 2019), the 477th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 579th in 2019) and the most popular Turkish Photographer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Yousuf Karsh ranks 25 out of 148. Before him are Annie Leibovitz, Diane Arbus, Alfred Stieglitz, Josef Koudelka, Richard Avedon, and August Sander. After him are Robert Mapplethorpe, Roger Fenton, Irving Penn, Berenice Abbott, Jan Saudek, and Nan Goldin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Yousuf Karsh ranks 82. Before him are Rómulo Betancourt, Koča Popović, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Max Bill, Remedios Varo, and Giovannino Guareschi. After him are Atahualpa Yupanqui, Leroy Anderson, Cus D'Amato, Viktor Abakumov, Bjarni Benediktsson, and Giacomo Manzù. Among people deceased in 2002, Yousuf Karsh ranks 75. Before him are Peggy Lee, John Entwistle, Velibor Vasović, Geraldine of Albania, François Périer, and Sohn Kee-chung. After him are Uziel Gal, Choi Hong Hi, Alexander Lebed, Pierre Werner, George Roy Hill, and Marina Berti.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Yousuf Karsh ranks 477 out of 1,347. Before him are Crates of Mallus (-200), Adamantios Korais (1748), Oribasius (325), Gerasimus of the Jordan (500), Theodore Metochites (1270), and Theodore of Mopsuestia (350). After him are Scylax of Caryanda (-600), Maathorneferure (-1250), Aquila of Sinope (100), Nicander (-250), Apollonius Molon (-200), and Quintus Smyrnaeus (400).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Türkiye

Among photographers born in Türkiye, Yousuf Karsh ranks 1. 

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