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KARSH: AMERICAN LEGENDS. Photographs and Commentary By Yousuf Karsh.
by Karsh, Yousuf
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0821219065
- ISBN 13
- 9780821219065
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Boston / Toronto / London: Little, Brown and Company. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket. 1992. First Edition. Large Hard Cover. 0821219065 Signed by Photographer A FINE LARGE HARDCOVER IN FINE DUST JACKET. 1992 SIGNED FIRST EDITION ... Book size : 10" wide x 12" tall ; 157 pages with 44 full color + 44 duo-tone photographs .... SIGNED by YOUSUF KARSH, on front free endpaper. Turquoise blue cloth over boards; in color photographic jacket , with photo of Jessye Norman on front & photograph of Karsh, Jim Henson & Kermit the Frog, on back .... In AMERICAN LEGENDS, legendary photographer Yousuf Karsh captures the essence of nearly 75 of North America's most fascinating and compelling personalities - from the performing arts, sports, & publishing, to the worlds of science & philanthropy :Andy Warhol / Ellie Wiesel /Tom Wolfe / Ray Bradbury / George Abbott, who at 105, has been instrumental in the evolution of the American musical theatre / luminaries of stage & screen: Harold Prince / Julie Harris / Charlton Heston / Angela Lansbury / James Stewart. From the world of music: Isaac Stern / Leonard Bernstein / Stephen Sondheim / Marilyn Horne / Jessye Norman / Rudolf Serkin / Dave Brubeck / Dizzy Gillespie. Artists: Jasper Johns / Helen Frankenthaler / Leo Castelli / Al Hirschfeld;and humanitarian Mother Clara Hale. Karsh's major photographic exhibitions have attracted enthusiastic audiences worldwide. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art & the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Philadelphia Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Canada, the National Portrait Gallery, London, & other leading museums. His brilliant photography captures the essence of the people he photographs, and shows some of the warmth & wit of the man himself, reflected in the poses of his famous subjects.KARSH. AMERICAN LEGENDS by Yousuf Karsh, with Photographs and Commentary by Yousuf Karsh. First edition, Published by Little, Brown and Company. SIGNED / PHOTOGRAPHY .
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- Bookseller
- Balcony Books and Records
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3454
- Title
- KARSH: AMERICAN LEGENDS. Photographs and Commentary By Yousuf Karsh.
- Author
- Karsh, Yousuf
- Format/Binding
- Large Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine/Fine Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0821219065
- ISBN 13
- 9780821219065
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston / Toronto / London
- Date Published
- 1992
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