THE ART OF THE CELEBRITY PORTRAIT

Edward Steichen // Yousuf Karsh

Central Gallery
October 15 to December 31, 2011

Curated by Ann Thomas

The aim and the art of the portraitist who works with a camera are not merely to produce a likeness but to reveal the mind and the soul behind the human face. When I have had the opportunity of studying those who have left their mark upon our time, I have tried to focus my camera on that quality which has made my subjects stand out from among their contemporaries. I have always been in quest of a secret, for that quality is elusive, indefinable. — Yousuf Karsh in Portraits of Greatness