Peter Russell’s bookshop (1960). Ida Kar (born Russian, 1908-1974). National Portrait Gallery.
Peter Russell’s bookshop (1960). Ida Kar (born Russian, 1908-1974). National Portrait Gallery.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 in 1933. She moved to London in 1945 with her second husband, the artist and critic Victor Musgrave. The height of Kar’s success was her well-received Whitechapel Gallery one-person show in 1960. -- source link
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