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.
(Richard) James Arthur Pope-Hennessy
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1959
NPG P424
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1933
NPG x134076
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, late 1930s
NPG x134046
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, late 1930s
NPG x134077
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1940s
NPG x132734
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1940s
NPG x132735
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1940s
NPG x132736
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1940s
NPG x132737
Ida Kar's parents (Melkon Karamian; Anahit Karamian)
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, early 1940s
NPG x134047
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, early 1940s
NPG x134048
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, early 1940s
On display at Qatar Museums Authority, Doha, Qatar in the exhibition 'Teas with Nefertiti'
NPG x134145
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, early 1940s
NPG x134160
By Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1940s
NPG x137330
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1943-1944
NPG x134017
Unidentified man; Victor Musgrave
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1943-1944
NPG x134018
Muhammad Ali Mosque, Citadel, Cairo
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1943-1944
NPG x134030
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1944
NPG x134015
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1944
NPG x134016
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1944
NPG x134033
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