Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer and one of the most distinguished and gifted photographers in England - "Artist with a camera" is how one newspaper described her work, following the first major photographic exhibition to be held in a London gallery back in 1960. Born in Armenia, Kar lived in Paris before settling in London with her English husband, Victor Musgrave who ran 'Gallery One Off' off the Charring Cross Road. Throughout the 50's and early 60's she had sittings with a whole host of notorious artists, authors including Bridget Riley, whose exhibition I've also been to see this afternoon. I've been on an art fest and experienced a visual feast of paintings, portraits and photographs in the National Galleries. Being able to view the photographs of such amazingly talented artists such as Henry Moore, TS Eliot, Somerset Maugham, Dame Barbara Hepworth,
She was a photography who was said to be forever at home among the artistic misfits.
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