Item no. S122 (stamp)
Type: stamp
Country: Canada
Date of issue: 21 May 2008
Catalog number: Michel Bl. 102 (2469 – 2471)
Set of 3 stamps (issued in form of a souvenir sheet) honoring Canadian portrait photographer YOUSUF KARSH (1908 – 2002) and commemorating Y. Karsh's 100th anniversary of birth.
The stamps show reproductions of his famous portraits: 1. Portrait [1956] of film actress AUDREY HEPBURN (1929 – 1993), 2. Portrait [1941] of British Prime Minister SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL (1874 – 1965), 3. Self-portrait taken in 1952.
The s/sheet's margins show miniatures of his other portraits.