Kar, Ida, 1908-1974
Variant namesBorn in Moscow, Kar worked as a photographer in Alexandria and Cairo, Egypt before moving to London with her second husband, Victor Musgrave, and opening a studio there. Surrounded by artists, writers and other figures from the arts, Kar focused her camera on them, creating the bulk of her portraits from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s.
From the description of Ida Kar Collection. 1953-1964. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122597771
Archival Resources
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| creatorOf | Kar, Ida. Kar, Ida : [photography bio file]. | Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library | |
| creatorOf | Ida Kar Photographic Prints, 1953-1964 | Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center | |
| creatorOf | Kar, Ida, 1908-1974. Ida Kar Collection. | Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center | |
| creatorOf | Villon, Jacques, 1875-1963. Letter : to Ida Kar, 1954. | Getty Research Institute |
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| associatedWith | Arp, Jean, 1887-1966. | person |
| associatedWith | Beaton, Cecil, 1904-1980 | person |
| associatedWith | Behan, Brendan. | person |
| associatedWith | Braque, Georges, 1882-1963. | person |
| associatedWith | Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985. | person |
| associatedWith | Coward, Noel, 1899-1973. | person |
| associatedWith | Cox, John, | person |
| associatedWith | Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965. | person |
| associatedWith | Giacometti, Alberto, 1901-1966. | person |
| associatedWith | Le Corbusier, 1887-1965. | person |
| associatedWith | Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955. | person |
| associatedWith | Man Ray, 1890-1976. | person |
| associatedWith | Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965. | person |
| associatedWith | Moore, Henry, 1898- | person |
| associatedWith | Preston, Julieta, | person |
| associatedWith | Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980. | person |
| associatedWith | Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975. | person |
| associatedWith | Spek, Klaus, | person |
| associatedWith | Villon, Jacques, 1875-1963. | person |
| associatedWith | Yerevan, C. Stephanyan, | person |
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Birth 1908-04-08
Death 1974-12-24
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