Vintage 1960s Bunny Yeager Estate Photograph Bikini Pin - Up Inez Kitts On Beach
Item History & Price
ITEM: This is a vintage and original circa 1960s gelatin silver photograph by Bunny Yeager of pin-up model Inez Kitts in a bikini posing in the surf on Miami Beach. A great example of Bunny's artistry and creative eye for composition that is perfect for your collection.
Measures 8" x 10" on glossy, single weight paper stock. Ink stamp, typed info and hand notations on verso that indicate this was published.
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Grapefruit Moon Gallery is "over th...e moon" to be the home of the extensive, detailed, and comprehensive estate of photographer and pin-up model Bunny Yeager. Described as "the world’s greatest pin-up photographer" by Diane Arbus, and best-remembered for her iconic collaborations with Bettie Page, Yeager’s body of work includes over five decades of spectacular, and groundbreaking celebrations of female beauty.
Yeager’s archive includes thousands of never-before-seen and many unpublished camera images of leading glamour and cheesecake models, unique camera negatives & transparencies, photographs, contact sheets, original model costumes, props, cameras, model release forms, technical notes, as well as displays and exhibition mounted large photographs from her Miami showroom. Yeager’s work is both groundbreaking and technically brilliant; one of the only female photographers working in the pin-up and nude genres, she captured the female body with a beauty, strength, power, and emotionality unparalleled by the leering lens of many of her male contemporaries.
Keep a close eye on our auctions for one-of-a-kind treasures from the estate of Bunny Yeager.
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Measures 8" x 10" on glossy, single weight paper stock. Ink stamp, typed info and hand notations on verso that indicate this was published.
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Grapefruit Moon Gallery is "over th...e moon" to be the home of the extensive, detailed, and comprehensive estate of photographer and pin-up model Bunny Yeager. Described as "the world’s greatest pin-up photographer" by Diane Arbus, and best-remembered for her iconic collaborations with Bettie Page, Yeager’s body of work includes over five decades of spectacular, and groundbreaking celebrations of female beauty.
Yeager’s archive includes thousands of never-before-seen and many unpublished camera images of leading glamour and cheesecake models, unique camera negatives & transparencies, photographs, contact sheets, original model costumes, props, cameras, model release forms, technical notes, as well as displays and exhibition mounted large photographs from her Miami showroom. Yeager’s work is both groundbreaking and technically brilliant; one of the only female photographers working in the pin-up and nude genres, she captured the female body with a beauty, strength, power, and emotionality unparalleled by the leering lens of many of her male contemporaries.
Keep a close eye on our auctions for one-of-a-kind treasures from the estate of Bunny Yeager.
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