Ida Kar (1908-1974), Photographer
Sitter associated with 137 portraits
Artist associated with 1480 portraits
Photographer, born in Tambov, near Moscow. Kar was influenced by the Paris avant-garde whilst studying there in 1928 and subsequently established her photographic practice 'Idabel' in Cairo with her first husband in 1933. She moved to London in 1945 with her second husband, the artist and critic Victor Musgrave. With the opening of Musgrave's Gallery One in D'Arblay Street, Soho, Kar photographed and exhibited Forty Artists from Paris and London (1954), however the height of Kar's success was her well-received Whitechapel Gallery one-person show in 1960.
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, late 1950s
NPG x134211
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, late 1950s
NPG x134503
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, late 1950s
NPG x134504
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, late 1950s
NPG x134505
by Unknown photographer
2 1/4 inch square film negative, late 1950s
NPG x134677
Nikolai Ivanovich Svishchov-Paola; Ida Kar and others
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1959
NPG x133325
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 31 July 1959
NPG x134100
Boris Sergeevich Brunov; Ida Kar
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1959
NPG x134157
Mary Cranford ('Mollie') Hitchens (née Coates); Ivon Hitchens; Ida Kar; John Hitchens
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, circa 1959
NPG x134164
Ida Kar; unknown woman; Victor Musgrave; uknown man
by Unknown photographer
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1959
NPG x134506
Ida Kar; Pierre Mugnier; Stanislas Lelio; Marie-Thérèse Lelio; Eva Lelio Lelièvre
by Ida Kar
vintage contact sheet, 1959
NPG x135086
Ida Kar at her Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition
by Mary Eagles
vintage bromide print, 1960
NPG x133327
Ida Kar at her Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition
by Mary Eagles
vintage bromide print, 1960
NPG x133328
Unidentified man; Ida Kar and Victor Musgrave at the opening of Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition
by Unknown photographer
vintage bromide print, 22 March 1960
NPG x134027
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1960s
NPG x134037
Ida Kar; Sir Charles Thomas Wheeler
possibly by John Cox
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 27 June 1960
NPG x134050
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 27 June 1960
NPG x134098
Unidentified woman and Ida Kar at her Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1960
NPG x134144
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