Vintage 1972 Bunny Yeager Color Camera Negative Notorious Lea Vivot Nude Unique
Item History & Price
ITEM: You are bidding on an original 2 1/4" color film camera negative photograph on Kodak film, taken in 1972 by Bunny Yeager. This features a revealing shot of the beautiful Czech born one time Yeager model Lea Vivot lounging around in the nude.
In 1973, according to press clippings Yeager held on to from the Toronto Sun, Lea Vivot sued Xaviera Hollander--notorious author of The Happy Hooker--in 1973 for libel for... including private details of Ms. Vivot's sexual proclivities in the chapter entitled "The Girls In My Life, " referring to her as "Leah, the naked lioness." Despite this, the two are still in contact today and if you look at Xaviera Hollander's webpage you will see recent photos of the pair during a 2016 reunion. Vivot also appeared in The Bud Irwin and Bunny Yeager film Orgy of Revenge, and modeled as "Sonja Sweet" for Yeager in other shoots. Today she lives in Canada and is a much acclaimed artist and sculptor. The circle of personalities that Yeager surrounded herself with is truly astounding.
Measures approx. 2 1/4" square. The watermark does not appear on the actual transparency negative photograph.
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For this listing only, Grapefruit Moon Gallery represents that the original camera negative/transparency ("Original") comes with United States copyright. The buyer is solely responsible for ascertaining that the Original is otherwise cleared for publication including but not limited to satisfying any publicity right that persons appearing in an image may have under any statutes or common law. Grapefruit Moon Gallery makes no representation or warranty as to any matters that need to be cleared prior to publication. No representation or warranty is made regarding copyright outside of the United States. All publication issues should be referred to the buyer's own professional advisors.
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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 Yeager’s archive includes thousands of never-before-seen and many unpublished camera images of leading glamour and cheesecake models, unique camera negatives & transparencies, photographs, contact sheets, original model costumes, props,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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In 1973, according to press clippings Yeager held on to from the Toronto Sun, Lea Vivot sued Xaviera Hollander--notorious author of The Happy Hooker--in 1973 for libel for... including private details of Ms. Vivot's sexual proclivities in the chapter entitled "The Girls In My Life, " referring to her as "Leah, the naked lioness." Despite this, the two are still in contact today and if you look at Xaviera Hollander's webpage you will see recent photos of the pair during a 2016 reunion. Vivot also appeared in The Bud Irwin and Bunny Yeager film Orgy of Revenge, and modeled as "Sonja Sweet" for Yeager in other shoots. Today she lives in Canada and is a much acclaimed artist and sculptor. The circle of personalities that Yeager surrounded herself with is truly astounding.
Measures approx. 2 1/4" square. The watermark does not appear on the actual transparency negative photograph.
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For this listing only, Grapefruit Moon Gallery represents that the original camera negative/transparency ("Original") comes with United States copyright. The buyer is solely responsible for ascertaining that the Original is otherwise cleared for publication including but not limited to satisfying any publicity right that persons appearing in an image may have under any statutes or common law. Grapefruit Moon Gallery makes no representation or warranty as to any matters that need to be cleared prior to publication. No representation or warranty is made regarding copyright outside of the United States. All publication issues should be referred to the buyer's own professional advisors.
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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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