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
vintage bromide print, circa 1945
NPG x131175
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, circa 1945
NPG x199649
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print on card mount, late 1940s
NPG x131012
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, late 1940s
NPG x131014
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, late 1940s
NPG x134022
Victor Musgrave and an unknown woman
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, circa 1949
NPG x134081
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1950s
NPG x128667
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, early 1950s
NPG x128674
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, early 1950s
NPG x128675
by Ida Kar
toned vintage bromide print, early 1950s
NPG x131129
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, early 1950s
NPG x131131
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, early 1950s
NPG x132110
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, early 1950s
NPG x132489
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, early 1950s
NPG x88537
by Ida Kar
quarter-plate film negative, early 1950s
NPG x88604
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1950s
NPG x13787
by Ida Kar
bromide print, 1950s
NPG x23320
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1950s
NPG x88615
Alma Lillian Birk, Baroness Birk of Regent's Park
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1950s
NPG x88631
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1950s
NPG x132759
Related People
- Edmond Belali (husband)
- Anahit Karamian (mother)
- Melkon Karamian (father)
- Victor Musgrave (husband)
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