Ida Kar Photographic Prints 1953-1964

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Ida Kar Photographic Prints 1953-1964

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00273/00273-P.html

The collection contains 124 portrait photographs by Kar, featuring prominent men and women associated with the arts. Kar's subjects include painters, sculptors, authors, poets, playwrights, composers, and museum directors. Photographs of Kar by other photograpers are also present in the collection.

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Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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Kar, Ida, 1908-1974

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Born 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 reco...