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Collections

Yousuf Karsh
Self-Portrait1946

Not on view
Black and white portrait photograph of a man in a tweed jacket holding a framed transparent panel overhead, face tilted upward, dramatically lit from the left
Artist or Maker
Yousuf Karsh
Armenia, active Canada, 1908-2002
Title
Self-Portrait
Place Made
Canada
Date Made
1946
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 9 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (24.13 × 19.05 cm) Primary support: 13 1/8 × 10 1/8 in. (33.34 × 25.72 cm) Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.64 × 50.8 cm)
Credit Line
The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection
Accession Number
AC1992.197.73
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography
  • Sobieszek, Robert and Deborah Irmas. the camera i: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection. Los Angeles: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1994.