Author: KARSH, YOUSUF
Title: Karsh Canadians
Description: Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0802023177. Some edge wear to dust jacket, especially head of DJ spine ; A bright, solid book, DJ in Mylar. Silver cloth covered boards as new ; B&W Photographs; 1.1 x 12.1 x 9.9 Inches; 208 pages; Yousuf Karsh 'He grew up during the Armenian Genocide where he wrote "I saw relatives massacred; my sister died of starvation as we were driven from village to village." At the age of 16, his parents sent Yousuf to live with his uncle George Nakash, a photographer in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Karsh briefly attended school there and assisted in his uncle’s studio.' Coming from the terrors happening in Armenia, Canada must have seemed like heaven on earth. This is Karsh's book of praise for the country he loved best. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket .

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