Description
| Product ID: | 9781855145634 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Yevonde |
| Subtitle: | Life and Colour |
| Authors: | Author: Clare Freestone |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Nature in art, Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes, etc), Individual photographers, Photographs: collections, Individual photographers, Photographs: portraits, United Kingdom, Great Britain, 20th century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating '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Life and Colour brings the photographer’s works together again for the first time in 20 years and features previously unpublished works.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. |
| Imprint Name: | National Portrait Gallery Publications |
| Publisher Name: | National Portrait Gallery Publications |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-06-15 |
