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Summary

Yousuf Karsh: The Roaring Lion

Photographer



Alternative names	Karsh of Ottawa
Description	Canadian photographer and artist
Date of birth/death	23 December 1908	13 July 2002
Location of birth/death	Mardin	Boston
Work location	Ottawa; Boston
Authority file	: Q312859 VIAF: 36920271 ISNI: 0000000114707427 ULAN: 500013272 LCCN: n50044628 NLA: 50659944 WorldCat

Title

The Roaring Lion

Object type

photograph

Genre

portrait

Description

English: Karsh called this picture "The Roaring Lion at the Wayback Machine"

Depicted people

Winston Churchill

Date

30 December 1941

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

height: 30.8 cm (12.1 in)

; width: 24 cm (9.4 in)

Collection

Library and Archives Canada

	Native name	Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
	Parent institution	Department of Canadian Heritage
	Location	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
	Coordinates	45° 25′ 11″ N, 75° 42′ 29″ W
	Established	1872 (archives), 1953 (library), 21 May 2004 (merged institution)
	Website	www.collectionscanada.gc.ca
	Authority file	: Q913250 VIAF: 122051864 ISNI: 0000000106564163 LCCN: no2004037399 GND: 10103673-5 SUDOC: 111838355 WorldCat

Accession number

MIKAN 3915740 (Library and Archives Canada)

Place of creation

Ottawa

Object history

19 August 2022: stolen

Credit line

Yousuf Karsh. Library and Archives Canada, e010751643

References

Authority file

: Q92731208
BNF: 40323662b

Source

Flickr: Sir Winston Churchill

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	05:07, 11 August 2024	6,036 × 7,504 (5.96 MB)	Goszei	Higher quality
	03:08, 23 May 2024	3,052 × 3,884 (1.08 MB)	Goszei	Reverted to version as of 23:00, 9 July 2022 (UTC) last version without excessive brightening
	20:54, 9 December 2022	3,052 × 3,884 (2.35 MB)	Hohum	rv, highlights blown again
	13:39, 26 October 2022	3,052 × 3,884 (1.21 MB)	SuperWIKI	Return to a comfortable halfway between full brightening and excessive darkness
	21:53, 23 October 2022	3,052 × 3,884 (2.35 MB)	Adam Aboudou	Reverted to version as of 09:21, 22 June 2017 (UTC) The brighten version looks not so unnatural like the dark version. In old photos the picture was always brighten up and it was not so dark.
	23:00, 9 July 2022	3,052 × 3,884 (1.08 MB)	Hohum	highlights were still blown
	06:01, 5 May 2022	3,052 × 3,884 (1.21 MB)	CactiStaccingCrane	(properly) brighten the image without clipping lumiosity
	18:42, 8 October 2021	3,052 × 3,884 (1.08 MB)	Hohum	rv poor adjustments.
	09:08, 24 January 2020	3,052 × 3,884 (1.1 MB)	Túrelio	Reverted to version as of 17:02, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
	17:02, 17 May 2018	3,052 × 3,884 (1.1 MB)	Fæ	Original is B&W, please upload recoloured versions with a new license and source