Bunny Yeager Pin - Up Color Transparency Negative Bettie Page Guess Your Weight NR
Item History & Price
ITEM: You are bidding on an original Bunny Yeager estate archived and owned 4" by 5" color film camera transparency negative photograph, showcasing a colorized view of a black and white image of Bettie Page taken in 1954 by Bunny Yeager. This was created in 1998 by Bunny Yeager using a laborious process that allowed her to create a colorized version of this iconic frame which was originally shot in black and white. Essentially Yeager created a large oversized photograph of this frame a...nd had it hand colored / airbrushed with paint, and then she re-photographed it and created this: a color proof negative of the shot which she could use for reproduction purposes. A great and now iconic pose with a cheesecake oops view of Bettie Page at Funland amusement park on a large enameled "Guess Your Weight" scale. Yeager worked hard during the 1980's and 90s colorizing her Bettie Page images in hopes of them garnering new publication proceeds.
** Please note we are not offering copyright transfer on this auction as this is a later date internegative **
This item comes directly from Yeager’s estate, part of her archive and inventory, carefully stored.
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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and groundbreaking celebrations of female beauty.Yeager’s archive includes thousands of never-before-seen and many unpublished camera images of leading glamour and cheesecake models, unique camera negatives & transparencies, photographs, contact sheets, original model costumes, props,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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** Please note we are not offering copyright transfer on this auction as this is a later date internegative **
This item comes directly from Yeager’s estate, part of her archive and inventory, carefully stored.
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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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