Bunny Yeager Vintage Bettie Page Photograph 1954 Beaming Pin - Up Pose Beach Fun
Item History & Price
ITEM: You are bidding on an original small approx. 2 1/2" by 2 1/2" square black and white gelatin silver photograph of Bettie Page from a setting that occurred in 1954 - taken by Bunny Yeager. The iconic Miss Page is dressed in a bikini likely made by Yeager herself, as she splashes through the surf of a South Florida beach. This is an original still cut years ago from the contact sheet this image appeared on. A rarity for sure a unique frame of the pin-up legend looking selling the d...rama - in a classic cheesecake Bettie Page pose! A compelling never before offered in the secondary retail market camera rarity!
Measures approx. 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" on single weight glossy paper stock.
CONDITION: Good condition, this was quickly cut from the contact sheet by Yeager years ago - and has some uneven corners as such - never before on the market a unique photograph from Yeager's Miami estate. Verso has some spots of adhesive from being attached to a book.
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
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Grapefruit Moon Gallery is the proud 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Yeager’s archive includes thousands of never-before-seen and many unpublished camera images of leading glamour and cheesecake models, unique camera negatives & transparencies, photographs, contact sheets, original model costumes, props,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 listings for one-of-a-kind treasures from the estate of Bunny Yeager.
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Measures approx. 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" on single weight glossy paper stock.
CONDITION: Good condition, this was quickly cut from the contact sheet by Yeager years ago - and has some uneven corners as such - never before on the market a unique photograph from Yeager's Miami estate. Verso has some spots of adhesive from being attached to a book.
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
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Grapefruit Moon Gallery is the proud 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 listings for one-of-a-kind treasures from the estate of Bunny Yeager.
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