Clare began her job as Assistant Curator of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery ten years ago and was given the task of cataloging the Ida Kar archive, which the Gallery had just acquired. The archive was extremely large and comprised all of Kar’s negatives, vintage prints, contact sheets, cuttings book and letters. Clare worked...Read More
Ida Kar has featured prominently within the cultural review pages recently owing to the in-depth exhibition at The National Portrait Gallery, paying tribute to her lifetime achievements as a bohemian photographer. Born in Russia to Armenian parents, Kar was subject to a relatively privileged childhood before leaving home for university to study medicine in Paris....Read More
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