
Ernest Hemingway
A striking black-and-white portrait of Ernest Hemingway captured by the renowned portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh, rendered in a gelatin silver print produced after the original sitting. The image conveys Hemingway's rugged, larger-than-life persona through Karsh's masterful use of light and shadow, emphasizing the author's weathered features and intense gaze. Karsh's signature ability to reveal the inner character of his subjects is fully on display, presenting Hemingway not merely as a man but as a towering literary force.
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print, printed later.
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Photographs
April 1, 2014
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