working in black and white, and produced many notable portraits. She continued working up until her death, just two weeks short of her 83rd birthday, but is chiefly remembered for her work of the 1930s, which did much to make colour photography respectable. Exhibitions Be Original or Die Photographs by Madame Yevonde in 1953 featured 64 color photographs produced from original glass plate negatives and Vivex prints. It showed her Goddesses series of 1935, in which society women posed in, surreal, mythical guises. Goddesses and Others: Photographs by Madame Yevonde in 2005 at the National Portrait Gallery, London displayed 15 of her colour photographs from the 1930s. Madame Yevonde: Colour, Fantasy & Myth was a retrospective of her work at the National Portrait Gallery, London in 1990. An exhibition catalogue was also published by the Gallery. Another National Portrait Gallery, exhibition, "Yevonde: Life and Colour", is scheduled to open in London on 22 June 2023. See also Robin Warwick Gibson References External links Madame Yevonde photographs in the National Portrait Gallery Yevonde Archive—official site of the owner of the Yevonde collection. Includes biography, galleries of photographs, and exhibition history. 1893 births 1975 deaths 20th-century British photographers 20th-century English women artists 20th-century women photographers English women photographers Photographers from London