Vintage 1960s Bunny Yeager Photograph Artist Lewis Vandercar W/ Model In Studio
Item History & Price
Measures 8" x 10" on glossy, single weight paper stock.
More about Lewis Vandercar:
Lewis Vandercar was a locally known Florida artist, sculptor and reputed Magus (meaning magician - often called "Warlock"), and occult witchcraft figure in the Miami area for many years and in the Tampa - St. Petersburg area from 1973 until his death in 1988 at the age of 75. In 1973 Lewis moved to an area called Quail Hollow in the present day Wesley Chapel, but at the time was considered the town of Zephyrhills.
He lived in a geodesic dome house covered by ivy that he built himself on 14 gated acres of property and surrounded by tropical forest, his animals, sculptures and other works of art. He used this home and property as a studio and showroom. The grounds were used as a sculpture garden and display area. He spent the latter part of his life creating the most incredible pieces of art in Zephyrhills. He also held Friday night open houses where friends, artisans, metaphysicians, witches and the curious would come to visit from near and far.
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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Yeager’s archive includes thousands of never-before-seen and many unpublished camera images of leading glamour and cheesecake models, unique camera negatives & transparencies, photographs, contact sheets, original model costumes, props,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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