Regarding Heroes

By Yousuf Karsh and David Karsh, Yousuf; Travis

Yousuf Karsh's lifelong ambition was to search for a

form within a face, one that could become a symbol for a

life that was purposeful, meaningful, and generally virtuous.

"I speak with some experience when I say that I have rarely left

the company of accomplished men and women without feeling

that they had in them real sincerity, integrity yes, and sometimes vanity of course and always a sense of high purpose."

In his sixty-year career, he seldom wavered from this goal, even

when fame and fortune came his way. Nor did he discard his

trademark variations in lighting style that he perfected in the

late 1940s. Unchanging, too, was his genius at capturing the

ephemeral expressions that would reveal his sitter's psychology,

those fleeting disclosures of character and purpose his

famous sitters trusted him to expose.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567923593
• ISBN13: 9781567923599
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 3.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.9" x 12.8"