British photographer and businesswoman Yevonde (1893-1975) addressed the group in a 1936 lecture she boldly titled, “The Future of Portraiture – If Any.”
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Yevonde was a celebrated portraitist, innovative colourist and advocate for women in the profession. In short, a pioneer.
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“I think we must all agree,” the British photographer Yevonde declared in 1921 to the Professional Photographer's Association in London,...
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' So said Madame Yevonde, whose photographs of the debutantes and duchesses of 1930s London, decked out like deities, go some way to meeting her...
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London's National Portrait Gallery is reopening after a three-year redevelopment with a vibrant show tracing the life's work of Madame Yevonde.
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The National Portrait Gallery's first show in three years, photos by the British photographer Madame Yevonde, including this 1936 portrait of Vivien Leigh, go...
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As 'Life in Colour' opens at the National Portrait Gallery, Rosalind Jana retraces Yevonde's career as a fashion and portrait photographer.
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The National Portrait Gallery reopens this month with an exhibition of trailblazing photography by Madame Yevonde, whose 1935 'Goddesses and...
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Madame Yevonde – subject of a major show at the revamped National Portrait Gallery – saw the future in colour photography.
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Photographic pioneer Madame Yevonde portrayed Dorothy Campbell – the wife of speed champion Malcolm Campbell, an unfaithful husband – enacting a Greek myth...
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