Ida Kar: An exhibition of portraits of artists and writers in Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union; and other photographs held at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, March–April 1960. 

Includes acknowledgements; preface by Bryan Robertson; biographical note; list of solo exhibitions; introduction by Colin Macinnes; list of 114 works with title, date and size; 20 b/w plates. the catalogue also describes in detail the Ida Kar’s camera equipment and the papers used for the photographs. Subjects include Sir Jacob Epstein and Bertrand Russel, Germaine Richier, Josef Herman, the puppeteer Sergey Obraztsov, Henry Moore,Jack Smith, Soviet novelist and playwright Leonid Leonov, Sudanese filmmaker and painter Hussein Sharriffe, Stephen Spender, Soviet writer and poet Ilya Ehrenburg, Marc Chagall, Gino Severini, Elisabeth Frink, the sculptor Nikolai Vasilyevich Tomsky, Fernand Leger, Brendan Behan, Shostakovich, Giacometti, Somerset Maugham, and Melkon Karamiion Ida Kar’s father. 

Title: Ida Kar
Authors: Bryan Robertson, Colin Macinnes
Publisher: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Publication date: 1960
Language: English
Format:  softcover
Pages: 32pp.
Images: 20 b/w plates
Book Condition: very good
Stock Number: RB05448 RH 67