Is there a course that teaches the Yousuf Karsh style?

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    Lately I've been pouring through Yousuf Karsh's work and falling in love with it. Of course, he was shooting long before tutorials were being made, but wondered if there has been a tutorial that teaches this style?
     
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    There is not much information but some behind the scenes of his sessions.
    He used 2 continuous lights, bigger and more diffuse for the face. It also used a hard light to detach the model from the background. Additionally I used a point light for some detail, as in the photo of the pope (the chest).
    Always very high (the lower part of the chins is always dark)

    Yousuf-Karsh-Ronald-Reagan-contact-01-1187x980.jpg Yousuf-Karsh-Ronald-Reagan-1982-01.jpg Yousuf-Karsh-and-Pope-John-XXIII-1959--967x980.jpg Yousuf-Karsh-Pope-John-XXIII-1959.jpg Yousuf_Karsh_dans_un_studio.jpg
     
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    You need various controlled hard lights, usually fresnels, grids and flags, and a large fill light.

    The best modern approximation to Karsh in tutorials would be Chris Knight.
    https://p-v.club/threads/rggedu-dramatic-portraiture-lighting-with-chris-knight.17/

    Damien Lovegrove does a pretty good job with fresnels:
    https://p-v.club/threads/damien-lovegrove-hollywood-portraits.367/
     
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    Thank you for the details, and the nudge to the right forum. I appreciate it
     
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