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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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yousuf Karsh has received more than 1,039,277 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Yousuf Karsh is the 32nd most popular photographer (up from 50th in 2019), the 581st most popular biography from Turkey (up from 750th in 2019) and the most popular Turkish Photographer.

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  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.73

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Yousuf Karsh ranks 32 out of 105Before him are Robert Mapplethorpe, Roger Fenton, Peter Lindbergh, Irving Penn, Lewis Hine, and Philippe Halsman. After him are Jan Saudek, Guillermo Kahlo, Edward Weston, Berenice Abbott, Jacques Henri Lartigue, and Daidō Moriyama.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Yousuf Karsh ranks 84Before him are Eduard Roschmann, Rómulo Betancourt, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Michael Redgrave, Libertad Lamarque, and Pablo Dorado. After him are Fritz Witt, Alain Cuny, Van Heflin, Koča Popović, Baby Face Nelson, and Jean Delannoy. Among people deceased in 2002, Yousuf Karsh ranks 78Before him are Choi Hong Hi, Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Katy Jurado, Kim Hunter, Spyros Kyprianou, and Igor Ansoff. After him are Peggy Lee, Juan Antonio Bardem, Brad Dexter, Uziel Gal, Velibor Vasović, and Thomas Gordon.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Yousuf Karsh ranks 581 out of 1,301Before him are Jacob Baradaeus (505), Rhesus of Thrace (null), Adamantios Korais (1748), Leo II, King of Armenia (1236), Namık Kemal (1840), and Stachys the Apostle (20). After him are Pharnaces I of Pontus (-300), Aëtius of Amida (502), Symeon the Metaphrast (900), Ishme-Dagan I (-1780), Artemidorus Ephesius (-150), and Artakama (-350).

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Turkey

Among photographers born in Turkey, Yousuf Karsh ranks 1