Ida Kar: Photographer, 1908-1974

by Val Williams

When Ida Kar came to London in 1945, she left behind her in Cairo a reputation as a stylish avant-garde photographer. With ebullience and determination, she found in London a new Bohemia and spent the next 15 years portraying it. She photographed tirelessly, almost every new and important writer and artist from Doris Lessing to T.S.Eliot, David Hockney to Margot Fonteyn. Her documentary studies of London street life and her explorations of her homeland...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853811041
• ISBN13: 9781853811043
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Virago Press (UK)
• Length: 160 Pages