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Born January 5~ Madame Yevonde

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Madame Yevonde was the professional name of photographer Yevonde Cumbers.
Biography on British Council website:
http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/collection/artists/yevonde-madame-1893

Writer, artist and dancer Doris Louise Cleghorn Church / c.1915
Matte collodion printing-out paper print / National Portrait Gallery, London, UK

Motor-racing driver and aviator Jill Scott / Photographed 1938
Modern Vivex colour print, 1990 / National Portrait Gallery, London, UK

Madame Yevonde, NPG collection: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp06547

Further reading:
https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/madame-yevonde/
https://hundredheroines.org/historical-heroines/madame-yevonde-hundred-heroines/
https://www.theglassmagazine.com/madame-yevonde/

National Arts and Humanities Month~ October 28

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Lee Krasner, Springs, New York by Irving Penn

1972 / Gelatin silver print / Paper: 9 15/16″x8 1/16″ / ©The Irving Penn Foundation
From the exhibition “PROOF: Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet”

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CONTACT SHEET: After a roll of film was developed, the negatives were cut into strips and printed by contact. The 36 exposures of a roll of 35 mm film or the 12 exposures of 2¼ inch film fit comfortably on an 8 x 10 inch sheet of paper. With an 8 x 10 inch enlarger, the same array of negatives could produce a so-called enlarged contact, often measuring 16 x 20 or 20 x 24 inches.
~ https://www.clevelandart.org/exhibitions/proof-photography-era-contact-sheet-collection-mark-schwartz-and-bettina-katz