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December 2010

Turning the Camera on Yousuf Karsh

I was recently asked about the day that I photographed one of the 20th century’s preeminent portrait photographers. Yousuf Karsh burst into global celebrity when in 1941 he took this photograph of then Prime Minister Winston Churchill. For the next several decades the world’s mighty and famous clamored for his talents. His waiting list for [...]

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How to Buy an Afghan Carpet–It’s Not Easy

I am not a carpet kind of guy. Left to myself I would be quite happy plodding around barefoot on the beaten earth floor of a Neanderthal cave, or scuffing through the dust floor of an Ethiopian tuqual. But others seem to find great pleasures in tightly bound and painted hairs ripped from the backs [...]

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