Ida Kar
British photographer (1908-1974) · United Kingdom · On the map · Artists · Died at 66
Ida Kar was a photographer active mainly in London after 1945. She took many black-and-white portraits of artists and writers. Her solo show of photographs at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1960 was the first of its kind to be held in a major public gallery in London.
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Kar thus made a significant contribution to the recognition of photography as a form of fine art.
