{"product_id":"9781855145634","title":"Yevonde : Life and Colour","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Yevonde's '30s portraits of high-society beauties and Hollywood stars are finally getting the attention they deserve.' - British Vogue \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e '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 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 'Be original or die would be a good motto for photographers to adopt...let them put life and colour into their work.' - Yevonde. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e ---------- \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 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Life and Colour brings the photographer's works together again for the first time in 20 years and features previously unpublished works.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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"National Portrait Gallery Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48264411054315,"sku":"EB_DE1000_F16-03_SIMS","price":90.69,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781855145634-1.jpg?v=1781709142","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781855145634","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}