Ida Kar
(1908-1974), PhotographerSitter in 137 portraits
Artist associated with 1567 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, Edmond Belali, 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 her success was her well-received Whitechapel Gallery one-person show in 1960. Her most celebrated portraits document the bohemian social circle of artists and writers in which she moved.
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by J.S. Lewinski
2 1/4 inch square film negative, July 1965
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by J.S. Lewinski
2 1/4 inch square film negative, July 1965
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by Bob Collins
vintage print, 1965
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by Bob Collins
vintage print, 1965
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by Bob Collins
vintage print, 1965
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by Julieta Preston (Julie Green)
2 1/4 inch square colour transparency, late 1960s
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Ida Kar with Salvation Army friends
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, late 1960s
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KarSec (Ida Kar; John Malcolm Couzins, Leslie Smithers, Lawrence Ellar)
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1968
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KarSec (Lawrence Ellar, Leslie Smithers, John Malcolm Couzins, Ida Kar)
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1968
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Ida Kar with her assistants (Uriesco; Darrell James Viner; Lawrence Ellar and John Malcolm Couzins)
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1968
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by Unknown photographer
vintage bromide print, 1968
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by John Malcolm Couzins
modern bromide print, 1968
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by John Malcolm Couzins
modern bromide print, 1968
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by Uriesco
vintage bromide print, 29 February 1968
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by Uriesco
2 1/4 inch square colour transparency, 29 February 1968
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by Uriesco
2 1/4 inch square colour transparency, 29 February 1968
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by Uriesco
2 1/4 inch square colour transparency, 29 February 1968
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by Unknown photographer
2 1/4 inch square colour transparency, 1968
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by Unknown photographer
2 1/4 inch square colour transparency, 1968
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by Unknown photographer
2 1/4 inch square colour transparency, 1968
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Related People
- Edmond Belali (husband)
- Anahit Karamian (mother)
- Melkon Karamian (father)
- Victor Musgrave (husband)
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