Karsh

[ kahrsh ]

noun

1. You·suf [yoh, -s, uh, f, yoo, -], 1908–2002, Armenian-Canadian photographer, born in Turkey.

Karsh

/ kɑːʃ /

noun

1. KarshYousuf19082002MCanadianARTS AND CRAFTS: photographer Yousuf. 1908–2002, Canadian photographer noted for portraits, especially of famous subjects

Example Sentences

The photograph is one of the most iconic ever taken of Churchill, the British war-time prime minister, and shows him on Parliament Hill moments after Karsh famously took a cigar out of Churchill's mouth.

From BBC

"I held out an ashtray, but he would not dispose of it...I waited; he continued to chomp vigorously at his cigar. I waited," Karsh later recalled.

From BBC

By the time Karsh returned to his camera, he wrote, Churchill looked "so belligerent he could have devoured me".

From BBC

The photo - known as "The Roaring Lion" - was taken by Yousuf Karsh shortly after Churchill gave a wartime speech to Canada's parliament.

From BBC

"The results of this study could change clinical practice," said Yee Hui Yeo, MD, first author of the study and a clinical fellow in the Karsh Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Cedars-Sinai.

From Science Daily