Quest for Beauty: The Photographic Journey of Malak of Ottawa, is the authorized biography of the prolific, passionate and tireless Canadian photographer Malak Karsh. Malak's quest takes us from the Karsh family's exodus from Turkey wrought by the 1915 Armenian genocide, to Canada and a storied life filled with colour, beauty and joy.
The brother of Yousuf Karsh, arguably the world's most renowned portrait photographer, Malak of Ottawa spent a lifetime capturing images of Canadians, Canadian industry, Canadian landscapes, seascapes, cities, icons, and daily life, through millions of images.
Key to his success was his relentless pursuit of perfection – every single photograph was the result of a painstaking event, defiant of the elements, and often placing himself at physical risk in order to achieve his artistic objectives.
Central to Quest for Beauty is the Canadian capital City of Ottawa, Canada's distinctive gothic-revival Parliament Buildings, his decades-long association with the Dutch and his obsession with tulips – an untold volume of floral photography that in part redefined Canada's capital city.
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Topic
ArtSubtopic
PhotographyTable of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Images
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword by Anna Porter
- Prologue
- Chapter 1 What Everyone Saw
- Chapter 2 Start of the Journey
- Chapter 3 Early Arrivals
- Chapter 4 The Call
- Chapter 5 Love at First Sight
- Chapter 6 Compeers
- Chapter 7 Brothers
- Chapter 8 That’s My Sister
- Chapter 9 Ordeals
- Chapter 10 Black and White
- Chapter 11 The Tulip
- Chapter 12 Recognition
- Chapter 13 A Photo Festival
- Chapter 14 The National Capital Commission
- Chapter 15 The Floralphile
- Chapter 16 That Church
- Chapter 17 Fearless
- Chapter 18 Perfection
- Chapter 19 Just One More
- Chapter 20 Model Child
- Chapter 21 Public relations Man
- Chapter 22 Storytellers
- Chapter 23 Road Warriors
- Chapter 24 Malabar Meadows
- Chapter 25 Legacy
- Chapter 26 DILY
- Chapter 27 All this Is My Country
- About the Author
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