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, 27 June 1960
NPG x134507
Ida Kar; Henry Moore and two unknown sitters
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, March 1960
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by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, March 1960
NPG x134702
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, March 1960
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Ida Kar signing catalogues at her exhibition in Moscow
by B. Baldin
vintage bromide print, 4 April 1962
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Ida Kar at the opening of her exhibition in Moscow
by Unknown photographer
vintage bromide print, 4 April 1962
NPG x133331
Ida Kar with her enlargements of Marc Chagall, Georges Braque and Noël Coward
by London Express News and Feature Services
vintage bromide print, 1962
NPG x133330
by Ida Kar, assisted by Julieta Preston (Julie Green)
vintage contact sheet, circa 1962
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The photographer and the photographed' (Ida Kar)
by Julieta Preston (Julie Green)
vintage bromide print, 1962-1963
NPG x133334
by Julieta Preston (Julie Green)
vintage bromide print, 1962
NPG x133335
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1962
NPG x88688
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1962
NPG x134036
Ida Kar outside the House of Friendship in Moscow
by Unknown photographer
vintage bromide print, 1962
NPG x134095
Ida Kar holding an early portrait of herself in Russia
by V. Shakhovskoy
vintage bromide print, 1962
NPG x134099
Ida Kar with schoolgirls at her exhibition in Moscow
by B. Baldin
vintage bromide print, 4 April 1962
NPG x134208
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1962
NPG x134216
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1962
NPG x134217
Ida Kar at the opening of her exhibition in Moscow
by Unknown photographer
vintage bromide print, 4 April 1962
NPG x134224
Ida Kar with her portrait of Eugène Ionesco
by V. Stepanets
vintage bromide print, 15 April 1962
NPG x134223
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