Beginnings; 4; Yousef Karsh, Photographer
- Series
- Beginnings
- Episode Number
- 4
- Episode
- Yousef Karsh, Photographer
- Producing Organization
- WTTW (Television station : Chicago, Ill.)
- Contributing Organization
- Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/512-vx05x26h9v
- NOLA Code
- BEGN
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Yousef Karsh was born in Armenia-in-Turkey but was sent to Sherbrooke, Quebec, after the massacre of 1915. After a three-year photographic apprenticeship in Boston, Mr. Karsh opened his own studios in Canada. In 1946 he published Faces of Destiny, a selection of seventy-five of his most notable portraits. He has recently worked together with Bishop Fulton Sheen on two books which were well received. Mr. Karsh here describes his immigration as a young boy from Armenia and his apprenticeship to his uncle who was a photographer. Mr. Karsh is the only photographer whose work hangs in the National Gallery of America. He shows his photographic studies of Ernest Hemingway, Sir Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, Albert Schweitzer, Helen Keller, Albert Einstein, Pablo Casals, Augustus Johns and President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He describes his experiences in getting each of these pictures. He also explains his view of photography. Mr. Karsh is interviewed by Van Allen Bradley, book editor of the Chicago Daily News. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Series Description
- This series is based on the theory that public knowledge is the product of private quests. The stories of thirteen searchers for knowledge and how they found that knowledge is the basis for Beginnings. Each episode is a separate explanation of a profession with an outstanding personality as a focal point. The purpose of this series is to acquaint the audience with the motivations and methods by which these guests came to be experts in their areas. Interviewers, selected for their special knowledge and ability in the subject matter, discuss topics including training techniques, the length of training, the requirements for excellence, and the rewards which special competence in a field can bring. Each guest is asked to reflect on the rewards of his efforts because each one has invested so much of his life in the search. He is also asked to consider the future in terms of potential for the world as we know it. The 13 half-hour episodes that comprise this series were originally recorded in black and white on videotape. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Broadcast Date
- 1960-00-00
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Interviewee: Karsh, Yousef
Interviewer: Bradley, Van Allen
Producing Organization: WTTW (Television station : Chicago, Ill.)
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2314558-1 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 16mm film
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: B&W
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Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive
Identifier: [request film based on title] (Indiana University)
Format: 16mm film
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Beginnings; 4; Yousef Karsh, Photographer,” 1960-00-00, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 9, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-vx05x26h9v.
- MLA: “Beginnings; 4; Yousef Karsh, Photographer.” 1960-00-00. Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 9, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-vx05x26h9v>.
- APA: Beginnings; 4; Yousef Karsh, Photographer. Boston, MA: Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-vx05x26h9v