Yousuf Karsh Portrait Photographer Wogan Show BBC Television 1980s

Here s the great portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh, CC on the Wogan Show circa 1980 s ( December 23, 1908 July 13, 2002) was an ArmenianCanadian portrait photographer. Yousuf Karsh was born in Mardin, a city in the eastern Ottoman Empire (present He grew up during the Armenian Genocide where he wrote, I saw relatives massacred; my sister died of starvation as we were driven from village to At the age of 16, his parents sent Yousuf to live with his uncle George Nakash, a photo