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.
More on Ida Kar: Biography | Timeline | Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition, 1960
by Unknown photographer
2 1/4 inch square colour transparency, 1968
NPG x134467
by Unknown photographer
2 1/4 inch square colour transparency, 1968
NPG x134466
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square colour transparency, 1968
NPG x134470
by Unknown photographer
2 1/4 inch square colour transparency, 1968
NPG x134517
by P. Knina
vintage bromide print, 1969
NPG x134108
by John Malcolm Couzins
modern bromide print, circa 1969
NPG x135244
by John Malcolm Couzins
modern bromide print, circa 1969
NPG x135245
by John Malcolm Couzins
modern bromide print, circa 1969
NPG x135246
by John Malcolm Couzins
modern bromide print, 22 January 1972
NPG x134103
by John Malcolm Couzins
modern bromide print, 22 January 1972
NPG x134104
Ida Kar at St Sarkis Armenian Church
by Mark Gerson
vintage bromide print, 19 August 1974
NPG x133339
Anthony Sobers; Ida Kar and girl
by Ida Kar
gelatin silver contact sheet, 22 August 1974
NPG x201288
by Mark Gerson
glossy bromide print, 22 August 1974
NPG x125827
by Victor Musgrave
felt tipped pen on blue paper, circa 1965
NPG D16383
Ida Kar; Ivon Hitchens; Mary Cranford ('Mollie') Hitchens (née Coates)
possibly by John Cox
2 1/4 inch square film negative, circa 1958
NPG x134580
Related People
- Edmond Belali (husband)
- Anahit Karamian (mother)
- Melkon Karamian (father)
- Victor Musgrave (husband)
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