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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vintage bromide print, 1953
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vintage bromide print, 1953
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chlorobromide print, 1953
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5 x 4 inch film negative, mid 1950s
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, mid 1950s
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
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by Ida Kar
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Display Window for Ida Kar's exhibition, 'Forty Artists from London and Paris', Gallery One
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 30 March 1954
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
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by Ida Kar
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vintage bromide print, 1954
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2 1/4 inch square film negative, 30 March 1954
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Man Ray with his painting 'Mademoiselle H'
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quarter-plate film negative, 30 March 1954
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
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Camille Bombois with his wife Eugénie Christophe
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by Ida Kar
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
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by Ida Kar
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
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by Ida Kar
quarter-plate film negative, 1954
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
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by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1954
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by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1954
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
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by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1954
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
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by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 30 March 1954
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
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'Reclining figure by Henry Moore'
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
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by Ida Kar
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by Ida Kar
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Ossip Zadkine with 'The Destroyed City'
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
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by Ida Kar
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by Ida Kar
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
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vintage bromide print, 1954
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Related People
- Edmond Belali (husband)
- Anahit Karamian (mother)
- Melkon Karamian (father)
- Victor Musgrave (husband)
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