{"product_id":"yevonde-life-and-colour","title":"Yevonde: Life and Colour","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Life and Colour brings the photographer’s works together again for the first time in 20 years and features previously unpublished works.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.","brand":"National Portrait Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40806925926485,"sku":"9781855145634N","price":43.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/6a8aff78-3822-4c38-8602-bf554c72c8ad.jpg?v=1711804259","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/yevonde-life-and-colour","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}