Posted in Events le 7 November 2013
Yousuf Karsh - Mona Bismarck Foundation October 16th to January 26th
Yousuf Karsh: Icons of the twentieth century
October 16th to January 26th
Yousuf Karsh, an Armenian-Canadian photographer, is one of the most famous and accomplished portrait photographers of all time. Karsh was considered a master of studio lights. He always studied his clients before "capturing" them. He said: “The endless fascination of these people for me lies in what I call their inward power. It is part of the elusive secret that hides in everyone, and it has been my life’s work to try to capture it on film. The mask we present to others and, too often, to ourselves may lift for only a second—to reveal that power in an unconscious gesture, a raised brow, a surprised response, a moment of repose. This is the moment to record.”
This exhibition at the Mona Bismarck Foundation brings together approximately seventy of the photographer's most striking portraits of French and American dignitaries and luminaries. Original photographs will be presented alongside archival material from the dozens of Life and Paris-Match covers that Karsh captured. Some of the portraits to be discovered: Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles de Gaulle, Dwight Eisenhower, Andy Warhol, Brigitte Bardot, Alfred Hitchcock, Albert Einstein, Grace Kelly, and Mohamed Ali.
Mona Bismarck foundation
34 Avenue de New York, 75116 Paris
Mona Bismarck foundation website
Wednesday through Sunday from 11:00am to 6:00pm
Closed on holidays
Adults: 7€
Reduced price: 5€*
Children under the age of 12: free