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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
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.
Learn about Yevonde, a pioneering London photographer who spearheaded the use of colour photography in the 1930s. Discover her life, career, technique, vision and legacy in this exhibition curator's guide.
As an innovator committed to colour photography when it was not considered a serious medium, Yevonde’s work is significant in the history of British portrait photography. Her most renowned body of work is a series of women dressed as goddesses posed in surreal tableaux exhibited in 1935.
