1954 Bunny Yeager Pin - Up Camera Negative Beauty Queen Marcia Valibus At Plane NR
Item History & Price
ITEM: You are bidding on a fabulous original medium format 120 archived film black and white camera negative taken in 1954 by Bunny Yeager. This features the pretty yet infrequent Yeager figure model Marcia Valibus a pageant girl beauty queen. This is a great over the shoulder "Yes We Can" type patriotic pin-up pose.
Valibus moved to Miami in '43, where she graduated from Miami High in 1956, and was a popular teen model. Her beauty won many titles including: Kiwanis Queen '56,... Tempo Cover Girl '56, Miss Miami Beach '56, U of M Homecoming Queen '57, Orange Bowl Queen '58, Miss Florida '58, 1st Runner-up Miss USA.
Measures approx. 2 1/4" square.
PLEASE NOTE: The auction is for the Kodak Safety Film black and white camera negative which we converted to a positive view in the scans here.
The watermark does not appear on the actual negative.
A beautiful 120 film original camera negative from the estate of Bunny Yeager.
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
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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Yeager’s archive includes thousands of never-before-seen and many unpublished camera images of leading glamour and cheesecake models, unique camera negatives & transparencies, photographs, contact sheets, original model costumes, props,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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Valibus moved to Miami in '43, where she graduated from Miami High in 1956, and was a popular teen model. Her beauty won many titles including: Kiwanis Queen '56,... Tempo Cover Girl '56, Miss Miami Beach '56, U of M Homecoming Queen '57, Orange Bowl Queen '58, Miss Florida '58, 1st Runner-up Miss USA.
Measures approx. 2 1/4" square.
PLEASE NOTE: The auction is for the Kodak Safety Film black and white camera negative which we converted to a positive view in the scans here.
The watermark does not appear on the actual negative.
A beautiful 120 film original camera negative from the estate of Bunny Yeager.
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
••••••••••••••••••••
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.
••••••••••••••••••••
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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