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Yevonde: Life and Colour


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'Yevonde's '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. You'd 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 adopt…let them put life and colour into their work.' - Yevonde. ---------- 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Life and Colour brings the photographer's works together again for the first time in 20 years and features previously unpublished works.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.

About the Author :
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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The operatic effect was further heightened by her use of a color printing process that rendered hyper-rich hues she believed especially suited to female subjects whose "exquisite complexions and coloured fingernails came into their own." This quote and others from the book reveal Yvonde to be a somewhat complex protofemini--Albert Mobilio "Hyperallergic" In Yevonde's hands, color created a space to experiment and explore with the painterly qualities of the form. She cast leading stars of stage and screen like Vivien Leigh and John Geilgud as gods and goddesses sent down to earth, capturing the surreal space where they were both human and divine in a world just starting to modernize.--Miss Rosen "Blind" Yevonde elevated artifice and performative mise-en-scène to new, dreamlike ends.--Emily LaBarge "The New York Times: Arts" Yevonde understood that colour was a potent avenue into the realm of feminine fantasy...[she] embraced the full range of its possibilities.--Rosalind Jana "British Vogue"


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  • ISBN-13: 9781855145634
  • Publisher: National Portrait Gallery Publications
  • Publisher Imprint: National Portrait Gallery Publications
  • Height: 300 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Sub Title: Life and Colour
  • Width: 245 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1855145634
  • Publisher Date: 15 Jun 2023
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 1740 gr


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