Yevonde: Life and Colour (with free tote bag)

'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Life and Colour brings the photographer's works together again for the first time in 20 years and features previously unpublished works.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.

*Free National Portrait Gallery tote bag with a copy of Yevonde: Life and Colour, strictly while stock lasts. One tote bag per book purchased, instore at Foyles Charing Cross Road and online at foyles.co.uk via this page, while stock lasts. Tote bag is black with red NPG logo and measures approx. 37 x 41cm, excluding handles.