Vintage 1960s Important Hand Signed Bunny Yeager Self Portrait Photograph Rarest
Item History & Price
ITEM: This is a vintage and original 1960s gelatin silver photograph of Bunny Yeager by Bunny Yeager. Using a self timer, Bunny captured herself sitting on the sand in Miami Beach, her platinum blonde hair flowing as she loads film into her camera. Hand signed in the lower margin, this is a beautiful find. She poses with easy confidence as the consummate professional she was; innovative, fearless, and a true original. A great example of Bunny's artistry and eye for composition that is... perfect for your collection.
Measures 8" x 10" with subtle warm tones on glossy, single-weight paper stock.
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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Yeager’s archive includes thousands of never-before-seen and many unpublished camera images of leading glamour and cheesecake models, unique camera negatives & transparencies, photographs, contact sheets, original model costumes, props,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" with subtle warm tones on glossy, single-weight paper stock.
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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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