1. "A Personal View of Karsh's Life and Work"
Jerry Fielder, Director and Curator of the Estate of Yousuf Karsh, discusses his personal, twenty-five year association with Karsh, reviewing his history, his family, the influence of his mentors, the development of his style, and Fielder's 30 years of working with him and his photographs.
Length: 46:21
File Size: 21.2 MB
2. "In the Light of Other Days: the Cold-War Portraiture of Richard Avedon & Irving Penn"
Colin Westerbeck, director of the California Museum of Photography at the University of California, Riverside presents a lecture in which he discusses how the portraiture of Penn and Avedon, dialectically different as it is, right down to the lighting, is, nevertheless, a shared reflection of the times in which they were working.
Length: 41:54
File Size: 19.2 MB
3. "Yousuf Karsh, The Last of His Kind"
David Travis, former Chair and Curator of the Department of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago, discusses why Yousuf Karsh may be the last of his kind.
Travis examines the unique factors in Karsh's own personal background, traditional training, inventive techniques, and attitude toward heroes and hero-worship.
Length: 1:00:50
File Size: 27.9 MB
4. "From Harlem to the Character Project: Representing the Human Subject"
Dawoud Bey, photographer and professor of photography at Columbia College Chicago discusses his own work as a portrait photographer and documentarian.
Length: 38:25
File Size: 17.6 MB
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