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    KARSH: CELEBRATING HUMANITY - NEW EXHIBITION AT ALMA

    Tert.am
    11:27 01.09.11

    The Armenian Library and Museum of America (ALMA) will host a
    gala reception on September 17 to celebrate the opening of a new
    exhibition featuring photo portraits by the renowned Canadian-Armenia
    photographer, Yousuf Karsh.

    Karsh: Celebrating Humanity is going to be a gift of a permanent
    collection of photos by the 20th century's most renowned portrait
    photographer, according to Boston.com. The exhibition will feature
    Karsh photographs of the world's great personalities from the 20th
    Century, ranging from Winston Churchill, Helen Keller and Aram
    Khachaturian.

    It will be on display in ALMA's newly designed Bedoukian Gallery.

    Yousuf Karsh was born in the historical Armenian town of Mardin.

    Fleeing the horrors of the Armenian massacres for Canada,
    Karsh apprenticed in Boston in 1929 with John Garo, a prominent
    photographer. Influenced by the humanistic atmosphere of Garo's studio,
    Karsh decided to dedicate his life's work to "photographing the great
    in spirit.

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