Digital BW, The Print

Peter Marquis-Kyle wrote:

>
>Keith: Do you mean Yousef Karsh (Canadian portrait photographer, born 1908 in
>Armenia)? 
>

YUP..

>If so, what does his work have to do with photojournalism?
>
Photo-j is not just catching events... it is also about creating 
interesting and lasting imagery of newsmakers as well (feature and 
portraiture pics)...

Check out the imagery of White House Photogs and many magazine covers 
(portraiture style).. the moody, dark style of lighting used by Karsh 
for many of his images have become a basic staple of a good 
photojournalist's tools..  Of course, they are mere imitations of the 
original...

Of course, to be clearer, I should have set out Karsh,  as more an 
influence on pj than blurring the line, by implying he was part of pj..

others like Cartier-Bresson, Leibowitz (whose work I dislike), Capa, et. 
al. will fill in the blank nicely though.. ;-)


[Keith]
 




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