Yvonne Gregory

Yvonne Gregory by Bertram Park, 1919.

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

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]

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]

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.
• 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.

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