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, and by Brian Robins
quarter-plate glass negative, 1955
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by Ida Kar, and by Brian Robins
quarter-plate glass negative, 1955
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by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1956
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by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1956
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by Ida Kar, after Suren Stepanian
bromide print, 1957
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Bust of Ida Kar by Nikogos Nikogosyan
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1957
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by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1957
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possibly by John Cox
2 1/4 inch square film negative, late 1950s
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by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, late 1950s
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by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, late 1950s
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by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, late 1950s
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by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, late 1950s
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by Unknown photographer
2 1/4 inch square film negative, late 1950s
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by Unknown photographer
2 1/4 inch square film negative, late 1950s
NPG x134698
by Unknown photographer
2 1/4 inch square film negative, late 1950s
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Artem Alikhanian; Ida Kar; Marina Alikhanian; Mrs Litvinoff
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1957
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by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1957
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by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1957
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Related People
- Edmond Belali (husband)
- Anahit Karamian (mother)
- Melkon Karamian (father)
- Victor Musgrave (husband)
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