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 Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1962
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by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1962
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by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1962
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Ida Kar with her enlargement of Augustus John
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1962
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Ida Kar with her enlargement of Augustus John
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1962
NPG x134485
Ida Kar with her bust by Nikogos Nikogosyan
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1962
NPG x134688
Ida Kar and her friend the Orangutan'
by Klaus Spek
vintage bromide print, 1963
NPG x133336
by Unknown photographer
2 1/4 inch square colour transparency, 11 September 1963
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Ida Kar with one of her government drivers
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1964
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1964
NPG x132350
by Unknown photographer
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1964
NPG x134011
by Unknown photographer
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1964
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Ida Kar hanging her Cuba show at Hamiltons Gallery
by R. Chowen, for Evening Standard
vintage bromide print, 8 February 1965
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Ida Kar next to her portrait 'Sensuality' at her Cuba exhibition at Hamiltons Gallery
by R. Chowen, for Evening Standard
vintage bromide print, 8 February 1965
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Ida Kar at her Cuba show at Hamiltons Gallery
by Unknown photographer
vintage bromide print, 9 February 1965
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Pablo Armando Fernández; Ida Kar
by Unknown photographer
vintage bromide print, 9 February 1965
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Ida Kar; Victor Musgrave and Pablo Armando Fernández at the opening of 'Ida Kar in Cuba'
by Unknown photographer
vintage bromide print, 9 February 1965
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by Roger Hill
vintage bromide print on board, 20 August 1965
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Related People
- Edmond Belali (husband)
- Anahit Karamian (mother)
- Melkon Karamian (father)
- Victor Musgrave (husband)
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