Yevonde Middleton - Wikipedia
WEBYevonde 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: an introduction to the woman who pioneered colour …
WEBApr 24, 2023 · From her teens, Yevonde was an advocate of women’s suffrage and was active in the Women’s Social and Political Union, the militant wing of the suffrage movement, from 1909.
Yevonde: Life and Colour - National Portrait Gallery
WEBOct 15, 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.
Yevonde: photographing a galaxy of goddesses | Art UK
WEBAug 24, 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 …
The Woman Who Revolutionized Color Photography - Aperture
WEBJul 7, 2023 · Madame Yevonde, Joan Maude, 1940s. All photographs © and courtesy the National Portrait Gallery, London. Despite the successes in her time, Madame Yevonde’s pioneering work has been overshadowed in history by her male compatriots—as is often the case for many women artists.
Creating a Riot of Color, in a Studio of Her Own
WEBAug 18, 2023 · After a stint marching, chalking sidewalks and selling papers for the Women’s Social and Political Union, Yevonde glimpsed potential career independence in the examples of two successful woman ...
Madame Yevonde - British Photographer - Hundred Heroines
WEBYevonde Middleton, better known as Madame Yevonde, was born in 1893 to a wealthy English family. She grew up to be one of England’s best regarded portrait photographers, pioneering the use of colour photography in the mid-twentieth century.
“Be Original Or Die”: Yevonde’s ’30s Portraits Of High-Society …
WEBJun 22, 2023 · Unlike Beaton, Yevonde was doing it all in colour – and carving out a career for herself as a successful female studio photographer. “She’s just a breath of fresh air,” photography curator Clare Freestone says.
Yevonde - Person - National Portrait Gallery
WEBAs 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.
Madame Yevonde: the suffragette who saw the future in colour …
WEBJun 18, 2023 · Madame Yevonde – subject of a major show at the revamped National Portrait Gallery – saw the future in colour photography. On January 5, 1893, a doctor dressed as a courtier to Louis XVI ...