Yevonde Middleton
Madame Yevonde, actually Yevonde Cumbers ( born January 5, 1893 in London, † December 22, 1975 in London ) was a British photographer working in the field of portrait photography pioneered the use of color film. Her stage name was Madame Yevonde.
Life
After training at the progressive, liberal Ling Holt Boarding School in Hindhead, as well as in Paris, Belgium and France Yevonde Cumbers 1910 concluded to follow her example Mary Wollstonecraft, the British suffragette movement. They also began a three- year apprenticeship with the well-known portrait photographer Madame Lallie Charles (1869-1919) in London's Mayfair standing part.
21 -year-old in 1914, Yevonde founded in the district of City of Westminster her own studio in which it invited celebrities to have their portraits for free. By 1921 Madame Yevonde had developed into a well-known and respected portraitist and moved to larger premises on Victoria Street. The recognition of her work brought her numerous orders for promotional shots, among other things Christie's and Daimler -Benz and for magazines such as Tatler or a Fortune. In the same year she became a member of the Professional Photographer 's Association, London.
Around the year 1932, they started with the Vivex process for color development, to experiment and became ever, the portraits could be produced in color without coloring to one of the first photographers.
In the same year Madame Yevonde showed about 70 of her color photographs in the Albany Gallery in London, for which she received rave reviews; It was the first exhibition of color photographs in the UK at all.
Particularly well known were their recordings from a solid 1935, came dressed to the guests as Greek gods and goddesses.
In 1936 she was commissioned by a magazine to hold the final preparations for the launch of the RMS Queen Mary. The images were a great success and published in an extensive photo spread in People Magazine. In the same year she was commissioned also, the festivities surrounding the coronation of George VI. to photograph.
She photographed, among others Personalities such as Adele Astaire, Cecil Beaton, Donald Campbell, Barbara Cartland, Harriet Cohen, Noel Coward, John Gielgud, Constant Lambert, Gertrude Lawrence, Vivien Leigh, William Somerset Maugham, Yehudi Menuhin, AA Milne, Diana Mitford, Alice, Duchess of Gloucester Louis and Patricia Mountbatten, Iris Murdoch, Paul Robeson, Haile Selassie, George Bernard Shaw, Alison Uttley, Evelyn Waugh, Rebecca West.
Madame Yevonde since 1920 was married to the journalist and writer Edgar C. Middleton ( 1894-1939 ).
Discount
Madame Yevondes estate is located at the National Portrait Gallery, London.