My Cart

loader
Loading...

Yevonde

Life and Colour


  • National Portrait Gallery
  • by Clare Freestone, Pamela Roberts, Susanna Brown
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.

ISBN 9781855145634 | EN | HB
€57,50
available
Quantity
More Information
Publisher National Portrait Gallery
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Life and Colour brings the photographer’s works together again for the first time in 20 years and features previously unpublished works.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

Yevonde

€57.50