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    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.

    For further information please visit: http://www.plymouth.gov.uk/


    From: Baghdasarian
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