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Karsh : a fifty year retrospective

by Yousuf Karsh

This revised retrospective spans over sixty years of portrait photography, featuring influential public figures, everyday workers, and early experimental works. The collection includes colour photographs and multiple portraits of individual subjects.

Accession 31530 ISBN 0821225493 Publisher Little, Brown and Company
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