Re: [Leica] Karsh portraits: I see the light!

[Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca>]

frank theriault said and asked:

 > Ted, you've likely seen the CBC Life and Times biography on Karsh.  It
aired
> (I think for at least the second time) a couple of months ago.  They
> portrayed him to be a lovely, gentle, humble man.  A true gentleman in
every
> sense of the word.  Everything I've ever seen or read about him confirms
> that.
>
> Two things about him really jumped out at me in that documentary.
>
> First, his manner with his subjects was amazing.  They taped him
> photographing several subjects in his studio, and his ability to put them
at
> ease, to make them feel special and worthy, was amazing!<<<

Apart at being a master with light, he sure had the ability to put the
important and less important people at equal ease. If ever there was a
"people person" in communicating with other humans he was the coolest. I
don't think he'd appreciate me saying he was the "coolest." ;-) Never the
less in todays vernacular he surely was. :-)

> Second, it was mentioned that, contrary to what one might believe, his
rates
> for sittings were about the same as any other studio in Ottawa.  I would
> have thought that it would have cost an arm and a leg to have a portrait
> done by this titan, who photographed the most influential and beautiful
> world leaders, actors, celebrities and politicians in the world.<<

That's one subject we never got into. However, lets say the big and
beautiful folks didn't pay the same as the ordinary citizens of Ottawa. :-)

>>Had I known that, I would have ventured into his studio for a portrait.
What a
> keepsake that would be!<<<<<

Of course after a person like this is gone there's always those of us who
say "Why didn't I ask..." etc etc.

ted


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