European Union News
January 19, 2013 Saturday

Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer

London

Plymouth City Council, UK Government has issued the following news release:

Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer
Portraits of Artists from Paris, London and St. Ives

Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Drake Circus
26 January to 13 April 2013

In 1960 Ida Kar (1908-74) became the first photographer to have a
retrospective exhibition at a major London art gallery.

Russian-born, of Armenian heritage, she received public and critical
acclaim from her contemporaries.

She remains surprisingly little known today, yet she was instrumental
in encouraging the acceptance of photography as fine art.

Her portraits offer a fascinating insight into post-war cultural life
and her subjects included some of the most celebrated figures from the
literary and art worlds of 1950s and 1960s Europe and Russia.

This exhibition will be drawn from the Ida Kar Archive, acquired by
the National Portrait Gallery in 1999 and will include around 40 of
her portraits.

A number of the artists Kar photographed are represented in the
Museum’s permanent collections, particularly artists from the St Ives
School. Selected works by them will also be on display.

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From: Baghdasarian