Comments on: Madame Yevonde

By: nika

nika — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:41:24 +0000

i’ve loved madame yevonde since i was little! my dad brought home a book about her when i was 11 or 12 & i was instantly in love. i can’t believe that she actually created her own color process and had such a successful studio as a female of that time period! because i work at one of the more well known photography museums in the country, i had the chance to meet the man who is now the owner of her estate (and a distant relative). he was as charming as can be with a white beard, linen three-piece suit & an exceptionally stuffy english accent. & what a dear he was when i told him how much i adored her work… i have since then communicated with him once or twice by email– it was like the equivalent of meeting a favorite movie star! anyhow, thats my anecdote… yay madame yevonde.

By: Sasha

Sasha — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:30:12 +0000

you have effectively blown my mind this afternoon! i never would have guessed that these gorgeous, wonderfully strange works were from the 1930s… and by a woman artist on top of that. totally inspiring!!! (: Sasha

By: verhext

verhext — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:51:35 +0000

Emma: I love the reading lady so much! I want her to exist now.

By: Emma

Emma — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:11:00 +0000

I love her! I’d never seen the toadstool, or the reading lady with the doggies before though…

By: bulaklak

bulaklak — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:37:25 +0000

Wow, these are amazing. I thought at first the top picture was Siouxsie. Yevonde was certainly ahead of her time not only in pushing the use of color, but of such rich, lush, saturated color and such tableaux of everyday fantasy…decades and decades before the likes of Pierre et Gilles and others of that ilk.