317. Churchill's Photographer: From Escaping Genocide to MLK

This episode of Empire contains detailed descriptions of violence which some listeners may find upsetting. Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnan. And me, William DeRimple. So today we're going to talk about another the photographer, we brought you the monstrous Heinrich Hoffmann in the last episode.

This man, though very much a goodie, I think, in comparison, he's so famous during his lifetime that he went by just the one name, Carsh, K-A-R-S-H. And this is the man who produced, I mean, uh, thousands of images, but by far the most famous, is the one that's dubbed the Roaring Lion portrait of Winston Churchill. Now, you're thinking I haven't seen anything by Carsh. You have. If you live in Great Britain, just take out a five pound note and look at the picture on that note, because it is that roaring lion picture of Carsh's of of Winston Churchill.

And it was one that sort of came to symbolize the defiance of the British Isles in the face of of the Nazi threat. But it's also um half the pictures you've ever seen from the 1950s and 90 early 1960s. I had no idea until uh you sent me uh the the kind of snapshots of uh many of the uh great stars of that era, how many are by him and and, you know, the the famous image of Dali with his his pencil moustache, the I mean he goes on Audrey Hepburn, half the most famous images. the of that era are by this one photographer.

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