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 J.S. Lewinski
bromide print, July 1965
NPG P1050
by Unknown photographer
cream-toned postcard print, early 1920s
NPG x129571
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1933
NPG x134076
by Unknown photographer
cream-toned postcard print, 1934
NPG x129570
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 Unknown photographer
vintage bromide print, 1943-1944
NPG x134020
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1944
NPG x134033
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1944
NPG x134501
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1944
NPG x134502
by Ida Kar
quarter-plate film negative, early 1950s
NPG x88604
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1950s
NPG x134035
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, early 1950s
NPG x125086
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
NPG x133326
(Charlotte) Ann Chadwick (née Secord); Bingham Wilson; Ida Kar; Lynn Chadwick
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1954
NPG x134078
possibly by Lynn Chadwick
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1954
NPG x134141
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1955
NPG x129573
by Ida Kar
quarter-plate glass negative, 1955
NPG x88605
Related People
- Edmond Belali (husband)
- Anahit Karamian (mother)
- Melkon Karamian (father)
- Victor Musgrave (husband)
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