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'Mother and Child' (Hanja Kochansky with her daughter Katya Cobham (née Bebb))

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'Mother and Child' (Hanja Kochansky with her daughter Katya Cobham (née Bebb))

by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 22 August 1974
Purchased, 1999
Photographs Collection
NPG x132993

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  • Ida Kar (1908-1974), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 1567 portraits, Sitter in 137 portraits.

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  • Freestone, Clare (appreciation) Wright, Karen (appreciation), Ida Kar Bohemian Photographer, 2011 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 10 March to 19 June 2011), p. 139 Read entry

    In the summer of 1974 Kar embarked on what was to be her last photographic project. In her bedsit at 47 Inverness Terrace, Bayswater, she erected a makeshift studio and took several intimate portraits. Here a pregnant woman poses with a child. The contact sheets from this session of 22 August show how the cherished portrait of Kar's father, included in her Whitechapel exhibition, was removed from its hook for the duration of the session. Kar clearly intended several of her nudes for public display, as she had ordered enlargements of the retouched images; they were delivered to her shortly before her death in December.

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Current affairs

28 people are killed and hundreds injured in the IRA pub bombings. Two pubs in Guilford popular with army personnel were attacked with gelignite bombs, followed by a pub in Woolwich and then two in Birmingham. 17 people, known as the Guilford Four, the Maguire Seven and the Birmingham Six, were arrested for the bombing but all were eventually found to have been wrongfully imprisoned.

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John Le Carré publishes his classic spy thriller, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. The novel was later made into a BBC miniseries starring Alec Guinness.

International

A one party communist state is established in Ethiopia after a committee of military officers known as the Derg depose Halie Selassie from power.
Greek Cypriot officers depose President Archbishop Makarios III in a coup d'etat sponsored by the Greek Government. Taking advantage of the situation, Turkey sent troops to occupy half the island, proclaiming the Turkish Federal State of Cyprus the following year.

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