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Yevonde Philone Middleton (née Cumbers; 5 January 1893 – 22 December 1975) was an English photographer, who pioneered the use of colour in portrait photography. She used the professional name Madame Yevonde or simply Yevonde in a career lasting over 60 years.
15 de out. de 2023 · Learn about Yevonde, the pioneering London photographer who spearheaded the use of colour photography in the 1930s. See her portraits and still-life works from a sixty-year career, acquired by the Gallery in 2021.
24 de abr. de 2023 · Learn about Yevonde, a pioneer of colour photography and a celebrated portraitist of the rich and famous. Discover her innovative and striking work, from the Goddesses Series to her surrealist portraits, at the reopened National Portrait Gallery.
- Darcy White
Learn about Madame Yevonde, one of England’s best regarded portrait photographers, who pioneered the use of colour photography in the mid-twentieth century. Discover her iconic images of women as classical figures, her use of props and colour, and her commitment to women’s rights.
24 de ago. de 2023 · Yevonde's commitment to colour photography and her imaginative technique have resulted in a unique vision still fresh today. In July 1935, Yevonde launched her new Mayfair studio at 28 Berkeley Square with 'An Intimate Exhibition: Goddesses and Others'.
22 de jun. de 2023 · Madame Yevonde’s photographic series Goddesses and Others remains among her best known today. Like her contemporary Cecil Beaton , Yevonde’s images embody the theatrical spirit of a particular strand of interwar photography where fashion and portraiture mingled, and no set or costume choice was too extravagant.
18 de ago. de 2023 · Though her teachers there dismissed an impassioned essay she wrote on Mary Wollstonecraft, Yevonde returned to England a convinced feminist in 1909, at the height of the women’s...
