Vintage 1950s Legend Bunny Yeager Self Portrait Photograph Bikini Beach Pin - Up
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:44831264 |
ITEM: This is a vintage and original 1950s gelatin silver photograph of Bunny Yeager by Bunny Yeager. Using a self timer, Bunny captured herself in a bikini on Miami Beach, a mirror and camera at her side. She poses as the consummate professional she was; innovative, fearless, and a true original. The caption on verso reads "Bunny Yeager posing on the beach using the self-timer and a mirror to help her pose." A great example of Bunny's artistry and eye for composition that is perfect f...or your collection.
Measures approx. 7 1/2" x 9" on glossy, single weight paper mounted to heavy card stock. Bunny's studio sticker, ink stamp and paper caption on verso.
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Grapefruit Moon Gallery is "over the 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Yeager’s archive includes thousands of never-before-seen and many unpublished camera images of leading glamour and cheesecake models, unique camera negatives & transparencies, photographs, contact sheets, original model costumes, props,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 approx. 7 1/2" x 9" on glossy, single weight paper mounted to heavy card stock. Bunny's studio sticker, ink stamp and paper caption on verso.
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Grapefruit Moon Gallery is "over the 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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