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Yevonde
Life and Colour
- National Portrait Gallery
- by Clare Freestone, Pamela Roberts, Susanna Brown
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Publisher | National Portrait Gallery |
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ISBN | 9781855145634 |
Author(s) | Clare Freestone, Pamela Roberts, Susanna Brown |
Publication date | June 2023 |
Edition | Hardback |
Dimensions | 300 x 245 mm |
Illustrations | 160 col.ill. |
Pages | 240 |
Language(s) | English ed. |
Description
Yevonde (1893–1975) 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Life and Colour brings the photographer’s works together again for the first time in 20 years and features previously unpublished works.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 Yevonde’s images, considering their aesthetic and mythic references. Yevonde’s 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.
Yevonde