Friday, 5 July 2013

STUDIO

A photographic studio is both a workspace and a corporate body. As a workspace it is much like an artist’s studio, but providing space to take, develop, print and duplicate photographs. Photographic training and the display of finished photographs may also be accommodated in a photographic studio. Accordingly, the workspace may possess a darkroom, storage space, a studio proper - where photographs are taken, and a display room, as well as space for other related work.
As a corporate entity, a photographic studio is a business owned and represented by one or more photographers, possibly accompanied by assistants and pupils, who create and sell their own and sometimes others’ photographs.
Since the early years of the 20th century the corporate functions of a photographic studio have increasingly been called a “photographic agency,” leaving the term “photographic studio” to refer almost exclusively to the workspace.

Today many studios have sprung up to serve the ever growing media industry. Some of these studios have a resident photographer others operate mainly as a space for hire. An example of a photo studio for hire in London is Dizzy finch Studios in Wharf Rd near Old Street.Today many studios have sprung up to serve the ever growing media industry. Some of these studios have a resident photographer others operate mainly as a space for hire. An example of a photo studio for hire in London is Dizzy finch Studios in Wharf Rd near Old Street.



Yousuf Karsh is an example of a studio portrait photographer; Yousuf was born in Mardin a city in Turkey.   He grew up during the Armenian Genocide where he wrote, "I saw relatives massacred; my sister died of starvation as we were driven from village to village." At the age of 16, his parents sent Yousuf to live with his uncle George Nakash, a photographer in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Karsh briefly attended school there and assisted in his uncle’s studio. Nakash saw great potential in his nephew and in 1928 arranged for Karsh to apprentice with portrait photographer John Garo in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. His brother, Malak Karsh, was also a photographer famous for the image of logs floating down the river on the Canadian one dollar bill. Yousuf was a master of studio lights. 

Here are some examples of Yousuf's work 
1958
1956


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