Yvonne Gregory

Yvonne Gregory
Yvonne Gregory by Bertram Park, 1919
Born1889 (1889)
Died1970 (aged 80–81)
NationalityBritish
Known forPhotography
Spouse
Bertram Park
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(m. 1916)​

Yvonne Gregory (1889–1970) was a British society photographer.

Yvonne Gregory Park (1916)

Gregory married fellow photographer Bertram Park in 1916.[1] Gregory, Park and Marcus Adams established themselves as the "Three Photographers" and based their collective studio at 43 Dover Street in Mayfair.[2][3] Their studio was initially funded by the Egyptologist George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon.[1] Gregory and Park would collaborate on works, and Gregory would also pose for Park.[4] She joined the Royal Photographic Society in 1926 and gained her Associate the same year and Fellowship in 1928.[5] She also exhibited regularly in RPS exhibitions.

Park and Gregory published several books together including 1935's The Beauty of the Female Form.[4] The book arose from work they had produced for the first international photographic salon, held in Paris in 1933.[4] Gregory, with and without Park, published extensively in nudist and naturist books and magazines from the 1930s onwards, a subject discussed in detail in Annebella Pollen's 2021 book, Nudism in a Cold Climate.[6]

Selected publications

With Bertram Park
  • Living sculpture: A record of expression in the human figure &c., Batsford, London, 1926. (With G. Montague Ellwood)
  • The beauty of the female form, Routledge, London, 1934.
  • Sun bathers: A companion volume to "The Beauty Of The Female Form": 48 photographic studies, Routledge, London, 1935.[7][8]
  • Curves and contrast of the human figure, Bodley Head, London, 1936.
  • Eve in the sunlight, Hutchinson, 1937.
  • A Study of sunlight and shadow on the female form for artists and art students , Bodley Head, London, 1939.

References

  1. ^ a b "Yvonne Gregory". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  2. ^ "Marcus Adams". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  3. ^ "Marcus Adams: Royal Photographer". Royal Collection. Retrieved 31 August 2013.
  4. ^ a b c Ovenden, David (25 September 2012). "Bertram Park". The Camera Club. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  5. ^ Royal Photographic Society membership records. Accessed 24 March 2023.
  6. ^ Pollen, Annebella (2022). Nudism in a Cold Climate: The Visual Culture of Naturists in Mid-20th Century Britain. Atelier Editions. ISBN 978-1-7336220-6-6.
  7. ^ Park, Bertram; Gregory, Yvonne (1935). Sun Bathers. George Routledge & Sons. p. 48.
  8. ^ "Bertram Park and Yvonne Gregory Photographers". 10 March 2012. Archived from the original on 10 March 2012. Retrieved 2 September 2022.