Information and discussion on all aspects of British photographic history
Time: March 10, 2011 to June 19, 2011
Location: Porter Gallery, National Portrait Gallery
Street: St Martin's Place
City/Town: London WC2H 0HE
Website or Map: http://www.npg.org.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7306 0055
Event Type: exhibition
Organized By: National Portrait Gallery
Latest Activity: Dec 16, 2010
Export to Outlook or iCal (.ics)
MySpace Tweet Facebook Facebook
Ida Kar was the first photographer to have a retrospective exhibition in a major London Gallery. In the 1950s she stood at the heart of the creative avant-garde and the exhibition includes portraits of artists such as Henry Moore, Giacometti and Bridget Riley and leading literary subjects including Iris Murdoch and Jean-Paul Sartre, which together offer a fascinating insight into cultural life in post-war Britain.
As one of the shining stars of the 1950s art world, Kar’s work has remained surprisingly hidden. Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer re-presents this key twentieth-century figure and offers a unique opportunity to see iconic works, which have not been exhibited publicly since the 1960s.
Victoria and Albert Museum's photography collection
National Science and Media Museum
RPS Journal 1853-2012 online and searchable
Photographic History Research Centre, Leicester
Birkbeck History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné
British Photography. The Hyman Collection
The Press Photo History Project Mapping the photo agencies and photographers of Fleet Street and the UK
The correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot
Historic England Archive
UAL Photography and Photography and the Archive Research Centre
Royal Photographic Society's Historical Group
www.londonstereo.com London Stereoscopic Company / T. R. Williams
www.earlyphotography.co.uk British camera makers and companies
Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock.
National Portrait Gallery, London
http://www.freewebs.com/jb3d/
Alfred Seaman and the Photographic Convention
Frederick Scott Archer
© 2023 Created by Michael Pritchard.
Powered by
RSVP for Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer to add comments!
Join British photographic history