Malak Karsh fonds [graphic material, textual record]

Malak, 1915-2001: Born in 1915 in Mardin, Armenia (now Turkey), Malak Karsh attended American College in Aleppo, Syria and then studied two years with his famed brother, photographer Yousuf Karsh. He opened his first studio in 1941, producing several photo essays on the war effort for the Canadian government during the war years. He took his first photograph of tulips on Parliament Hill in 1946, a project he continued for the Canadian Tulip Festival in Ottawa until the end of his life. During the 1950s and 1960s, such prominent newspapers and magazines as Saturday Night, Star Weekly, Globe and Mail, Ottawa Citizen, and the Montreal Standard commissioned Malak to cover all manner of subjects concerning the National Capital and Canada¿s industrial development. His numerous, widely known photo stories and publications have been instrumental in establishing the prestigious image of the region and its attractions for almost sixty years. Malak Karsh died at Ottawa in 2001. Contemporary photographer. Works located in: Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography; National Archives of Canada.

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