Remembering Pablo Casals on his birthday 🎂
📷 Elliott Erwitt, San Juan PR, 1957
"His playing is one of those rare things that may only come once in a lifetime and even not in one person's life. It may be centuries before there is anyone like that again."
- W. J. Turner
"In the Abbey de Cuxa in Prades, I spent several glorious hours with the master of the cello. Our rapport was instantaneous - he trusted me to carry his cherished instrument."
Yousuf Karsh gets ready to photograph Pablo Casals
📷 Peter Miller, June 30, 1954
Pablo Casals by Yousuf Karsh, Prades, 1954
"I have never photographed anyone, before or since, with his back turned to the camera, but it seemed to me just right."
Yousuf Karsh's commentary on his 1954 photoshoot with Pablo Casals is wonderful.
Yousuf Karsh took more portraits of Pablo Casals that day, some nearly as fine as the shot from behind.
Another Yousuf Karsh portrait of Pablo Casals, taken on June 30, 1954, in Prades.
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