Vintage 1960s Legend Bunny Yeager Pin - Up Self Portrait Photograph Beach Swimsuit
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:45045072 |
ITEM: This is a vintage and original 1960s gelatin silver photograph of Bunny Yeager by Bunny Yeager. Using a self timer, Bunny captured herself in a one-piece swimsuit on Miami Beach, kneeling in the sand with windswept hair. With her Rolleiflex camera front and center in this self portrait, she poses as the consummate professional she was; innovative, fearless, and a true original. The label on verso references her 1963 book How I Photograph Nudes. A great example of Bunny's artistry... and eye for composition that is perfect for your collection.
Measures 8" x 10" on glossy, single weight paper stock. Paper label 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Yeager’s archive includes thousands of never-before-seen and many unpublished camera images of leading glamour and cheesecake models, unique camera negatives & transparencies, photographs, contact sheets, original model costumes, props,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 8" x 10" on glossy, single weight paper stock. Paper label 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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