The first exhibition to debut as a part of the Gallery’s 2023 programme will examine the life and career of Yevonde, colour photography pioneer in the 1930s who worked in the twentieth century.
Yevonde will be recognised with the exhibition Yevonde: Life and Colour, which runs from 22 June to 15 October 2023 and surveys the portraits and still-life works the artist created over the course of her 60-year career.
Yevonde: Life and Colour
This exhibition will highlight the freedom photography gave Yevonde, who experimented with solarization and the Vivex colour process, reflecting the increased independence of women at the period. Through study, cataloguing, and digitization of Yevonde’s archive, which the Gallery purchased in 2021, teh exhibition will feature new prints and contemporary finds.
Showing simultaneously is an exhibition of Paul McCartney photographs.
When Is the Exhibition?
22 June to 15 October 2023
Where Is It?
National Portrait Gallery, London.
Further Information
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Main image: Vivien Leigh by Yevonde (1936, printed 2022-3), purchased with the Portrait Fund, 2021 © National Portrait Gallery, London.