Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html