Yousuf Karsh Canadian, 1906-2002
Audrey Hepburn, 1956
Gelatin silver print
image:
49.4 x 59 cm
19 1/2 x 23 1/4 in
Mount:
86 x 71.2 cm
33 7/8 x 28 in
49.4 x 59 cm
19 1/2 x 23 1/4 in
Mount:
86 x 71.2 cm
33 7/8 x 28 in
Signed with a black ink pen on the mount, along the lower left edge of the photograph
“The French novelist Colette picked her out of a ballet lineup to play Gigi on stage, and her career was launched. When I photographed her in Hollywood and commented on...
“The French novelist Colette picked her out of a ballet lineup to play Gigi on stage, and her career was launched. When I photographed her in Hollywood and commented on her quality of sophisticated vulnerability, she told me of her harrowing experiences during the Second World War. Years later, in the Kremlin, Chairman Brezhnev agreed to sit for me only if I made him as beautiful as Audrey Hepburn.”
Excerpt from: https://karsh.org/photographs/audrey-hepburn/
Excerpt from: https://karsh.org/photographs/audrey-hepburn/
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