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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.
- 22 December 1975 (aged 82), London, United Kingdom
- British
- Photography
- Yevonde Philone Cumbers, 5 January 1893, Streatham, London, United Kingdom
15 de out. de 2023 · Yevonde: Life and Colour tells the story of a woman who gained freedom through photography – as she experimented with her medium and blazed a new trail for portrait photographers. The exhibition features portraits and still-life works produced by Yevonde over a colourful sixty-year career, and draws on the archive of her work ...
A review of the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition of the life and career of Madame Yevonde, the pioneering London photographer who pioneered the use of colour photography in the 1930s. The exhibition showcases her portraits, still life, and commercial work of celebrities, artists, and goddesses, as well as her Surrealist and mythological elements.
24 de abr. de 2023 · Yevonde was a celebrated portraitist, innovative colourist and advocate for women in the profession. In short, a pioneer.
Inspired by a themed party hosted by some of her high society clients, Madame Yevonde photographed several women as classical figures, from Persephone, Queen of Hades, to Europa, mortal victim of Zeus.
24 de ago. de 2023 · Learn about the life and work of Yevonde, a vivacious and innovative photographer who operated across six decades of the twentieth century. Discover how she used colour photography to create startling and original images of women in various roles and costumes, inspired by art, myth and Surrealism. See examples of her colour archive at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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.
