Yousuf Karsh Canadian, 1906-2002
Albert Einstein, 1948
Gelatin silver print
image:
40.5 x 40.7 cm
16 x 16 in
paper:
59.9 x 49.2 cm
23 5/8 x 19 3/8 in
mount:
76.7 x 61 cm
30 1/4 x 24 in
40.5 x 40.7 cm
16 x 16 in
paper:
59.9 x 49.2 cm
23 5/8 x 19 3/8 in
mount:
76.7 x 61 cm
30 1/4 x 24 in
signed with an ink pen on paper, below lower left edge of image
“At Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, I found Einstein a simple, kindly, almost childlike man, too great for any of the postures of eminence. One did not have to understand...
“At Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, I found Einstein a simple, kindly, almost childlike man, too great for any of the postures of eminence. One did not have to understand his science to feel the power of his mind or the force of his personality. He spoke sadly, yet serenely, as one who had looked into the universe, far past mankind’s small affairs. When I asked him what the world would be like were another atomic bomb to be dropped, he replied wearily, ‘Alas, we will no longer be able to hear the music of Mozart.’”
Excerpt from: https://karsh.org/photographs/albert-einstein/
Excerpt from: https://karsh.org/photographs/albert-einstein/