Known as ‘The Roaring Lion’, photograph was used on the British five-pound note in 2016 ...

In 1929, Yousuf Karsh, one of the most noted portrait photographers of the 20th century, began his career in Boston. After many years in Canada, he later returned, spending the final five years of ...

OTTAWA, ON — A print of one of the world’s most famous photographs was stolen from an Ottawa hotel earlier this year in a theft that went unnoticed for months. The portrait of British Prime ...

Photographer Yousuf Karsh credits the portrait with changing his life. A famous portrait of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill appears to have found itself at the center of a heist.

It was a legacy of Yousuf Karsh, the portrait photographer of royalty, politicians, artists, actors and authors who long lived in the hotel and operated his studio there.

Famous Yousuf Karsh portrait of Sir Winston Churchill stolen from Chateau Laurier Back to video. ... The remaining five photos in the lounge have been taken down until they can be secured properly.

And all of the luminous black-and-white photos were works by Yousuf Karsh, who both lived in the hotel and kept his studio within it. The most famous of the portraits, ...

An original print of the famous photograph taken by Yousuf Karsh is missing after staff at a hotel in Ottawa realized last week that someone had swapped it for a fake. By Livia Albeck-Ripka and ...

OTTAWA — It sounds like a caper from a movie: a thief seems to have swapped out the famous portrait of a scowling Sir Winston Churchill, photographed by Yousuf Karsh in 1941, with a signed copy.

A collection of 15 of Karsh’s photographs were installed at the Fairmont Château Laurier — where Karsh and his wife lived for nearly 20 years and where Karsh operated his studio for even ...

Estrellita Karsh wife of legenary photographer Yousuf Karsh stands in front of the iconic 1941 photograph of Winston Churchill taken by her husband in the Speaker of the House of Commons' chambers on ...