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    A UNIQUELY CANADIAN EYE

    The Toronto Star, Canada
    March 1, 2015 Sunday

    One hundred years after his birth, Library and Archives Canada has
    completed its collection of images by landscape photographer Malak
    Karsh. The thousands of photos are a vast love letter to the beauty
    of this country

    Malak Karsh was a seeker of beauty, and he found it in Canada's
    frigid Arctic, blooming Ottawa tulips and still Alberta lakes. Chances
    are you've owned a Malak Karsh - it was his 1963 photograph of logs
    floating behind Parliament Hill that once graced the $1 bill.

    On what would be the photographer's 100th birthday, Library and
    Archives Canada has announced it has acquired a collection of about
    200,000 of Karsh's photographs taken between 1968 and 2001, completing
    a collection of his earlier work acquired in 1985.

    Karsh, born in Armenian Turkey, immigrated to Canada in 1937 to
    apprentice with his brother, portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh.

    Initially, the two brothers diversified so they didn't compete with
    each other. While Malak shot portraits occasionally, he was known
    for his landscape and nature photography.

    In the 1960s, he was hired by a Canadian government tourism bureau to
    travel across the country and take photographs. He became enchanted
    with the land.

    "After that, he would spend his own money; he would select places he'd
    want to go, take the pictures and build up a very large archive of
    stock photography that he and my mother would market to publications
    like the Michelin Guide and many calendars and textbooks," said Sidney
    Karsh, one of Malak's four children.

    Ottawa was always home - Malak loved to document and promote the
    region. (He is called the "spiritual father of the Canadian Tulip
    Festival" for his role in its creation and was later given a key to
    the city.)

    His trademark shooting style was from up high, so he always had
    assistants to carry a ladder for him - including Sidney, who remembers
    how they'd be up at the "crack of dawn" to capture the early morning
    light, and how all meals were eaten as quickly as possible so as not
    to miss the sun.

    Karsh, who received the Order of Canada, was shooting pictures until
    his death in 2001.



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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