Ida Kar Collection. 1953-1964.

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Ida Kar Collection. 1953-1964.

The Ida Kar Collection consists of 124 gelatin silver prints by Ida Kar collected by the photo-historian Helmut Gernsheim. The bulk of the photographs are portraits featuring prominent men and women associated with the arts. The photographs capture Kar's signature style of photographing her subjects in their familiar surroundings relying largely on the natural light of the location, as well as her belief "that a picture naturally dictates its right size and shape" whether that be 20 x 24 inches or over six feet. Kar photographed the majority of her subjects in Great Britain, but also worked in France and the USSR. Notable sitters include Henry Moore, W. Somerset Maugham, T.S. Eliot, Brendan Behan, Noel Coward, Cecil Beaton, Man Ray, Marc Chagall, Georges Braque, Hans Arp, Le Corbusier, Alberto Giacometti, and Jean-Paul Sartre among others.

124 photographic prints : gelatin silver ; 182.9 x 134.6 cm. or smaller.

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