Elixir

Yousuf Karsh

Mardin, Ottoman Empire (now Turkey), 1908 - Boston 2002

 

1938

Gelatin silver print

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, gift of Estrellita Karsh in memory of Yousuf Karsh

 

"In the 1930s, I enjoyed experimenting with optics and Surrealism."

 

This nude study of Karsh's first wife, Solange, consisted of four negatives carefully sandwiched together.

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