Churchills favorite portrait. He looks the wartime leader, the defiant bulldog. We shall never surrender. I sometimes wonder if the modern enemies of English-speaking democracies and freedom understand Churchill and Roosevelt. Yousuf Karsh took the famous photograph of Winston Churchill. It was in 1941, in Ottawa, following Churchill’s speech in the House of Commons. Prime Minister King arranged for a portrait session in the Speaker’s chamber. No one had told Churchill of the session, so after lighting up a cigar he growled, “Why was I not told of this?” Karsh then asked Churchill to remove the cigar for the photographic portrait. When Churchill refused, Karsh, then 33, walked up to the great man, said, “Forgive me, sir,” and calmly snatched the cigar from Churchill’s lips. As Churchill glowered at the camera, Karsh snapped the picture. Karsh regards that portrait as one of favorites.
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 01:19:34 +0000