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Yevonde: Life and Colour

English

'Yevondes 30s portraits of high-society beauties and Hollywood stars are finally getting the attention they deserve.' - British Vogue

'Yevonde: Life and Colour opens at the revamped National Portrait Gallery ... and will feature a comprehensive selection of works dreamed up by this brilliant artist across a 60-year-career. Youd be hard-pressed to find a more joyful show anywhere in the country.' - Jennifer Higgie, The Telegraph

Be original or die would be a good motto for photographers to adoptlet them put life and colour into their work. - Yevonde.

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Yevonde (18931975) was a businesswoman and tireless creator, as an innovator committed to colour photography when it was not considered a serious medium, her work is significant in the history of British portrait photography. Yevonde championed photography during a time where there were few women photographers working professionally, and this book tells the story of her life, works, and 60-year career.

Yevonde: Life and Colour brings the photographers works together again for the first time in 20 years and features previously unpublished works. This book showcases her experimentation with a range of techniques and genres including colour photography, portraiture, still-lifes, solarisation, and the Vivex colour process, and repositions her as a modern artist of the twentieth century.

This highly illustrated publication provides in-depth context to Yevondes images, considering their aesthetic and mythic references. Yevondes portraits embody glorified tradition countered with a desire for the new.  Her most renowned body of work is a series of women dressed as goddesses posed in surreal tableaux from the 1930s. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 1740g
  • Dimensions: 245 x 300mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Jun 2023
  • Publisher: National Portrait Gallery Publications
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781855145634

About

Clare Freestone is Curator Photography at the National Portrait Gallery London. Recent publications include Photographs in Dialogue UAE 1971 UK (2020) and Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer (2011) with contributions made to Love Stories: Art Passion & Tragedy (2020). Pamela G. Roberts is a researcher and curator. Recent publications include Alvin Langdon Coburn (2015) and A Century of Color Photography (2008) with contributions made to Madame Yevonde: Be Original or Die (1999). Susanna Brown is a photography curator who previously worked for the Victoria & Albert Museum London. Recent publications include Tim Walker: Wonderful Things (2019) and Horst: Photographer of Style (2014). Lucinda Gosling is Head of Sales & Research at Mary Evans Picture Library. Recent publications include John Hassall: The Life and Art of the Poster King (2021) Great War Britain: The First World War at Home (2014) and Brushes and Bayonets: Cartoons Sketches and Paintings of World War I (2008) with contributions made to Art of Feminism (2019). Lizzie Broadbent has worked with teams for over 25 years in complex business consulting and non-executive roles. Her blog Women Who Meant Business tells the stories of business women working in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Georgia Atienza is Assistant Curator Photographs (Acquisitions and Collections) at the National Portrait Gallery London. Contributions made to recent publications include Love Stories: Art Passion & Tragedy (2020) Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer (2011) and The Virginia Woolf Bulletin (Issue No. 21 January 2006).

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