The National Portrait Gallery has acquired its most significant colour archive by a woman photographer to date. In 2021, the Gallery purchased the tri-colour separation negatives of Yevonde (1893-1975), making an important commitment to study and celebrate her pioneering work of the 1930s.
Read the full blog here: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/reframing-narratives-women-in-portraiture/yevonde-colour-archive
Image: NPG x220001 Olga Burnett as Persephone, 1935
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Clare and I have already been in touch and between us, and with my sister’s help, we were able to date the photograph more precisely and identify other aspects.
How exciting. Clare Freestone at the NPG may be able to confirm this from the negatives or you may be able to confirm it for her.
My sister and cousins and I are pretty certain that a 13 year old schoolgirl who features prominently in a 1936 photograph of a school refectory by Yevonde is our mother. So she didn't just photograph famous people!