Yevonde Life And Colour

Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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Life and Colour brings the photographer's works together again for the first time in 20 years and features previously unpublished works.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.
Title: Yevonde Life And Colour
Brand: National Portrait Gallery Publications
Barcode: 9781855145634
Pages: 240 Pages, 180 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 8/8/2023
Category: Photographs: Portraits