Grapefruit Moon Gallery's BUNNY YEAGER ARCHIVE
PROVENANCE: This offered item is authentic original coming directly from the archive of iconic 20th Century photographer BUNNY YEAGER , which is now owned by GRAPEFRUIT MOON GALLERY . Bunny Yeager is known as the one of the greatest pin-up and self-portrait photographers of her century. CLASSICPINUPS is owned by Ebay seller MyMovieMemorabilia (100% feedback & over 5,000 sales) and is the only third party authorized seller by Grapefruit Moon Gallery offering Bunny Yeager vintage original camera negatives/transparencies and photographic images. A large portion of Bunny's archive has been left virtually untouched for almost 60 years. Many images are unpublished and have never been seen before.
A Certificate of Authenticity for this item will be included with the shipment.
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DESCRIPTION: EXTREMELY RARE! Vintage retro mod 1960s busty pin-up model SUE TIBBS gelatin silver photograph taken by and signed by photographer BUNNY YEAGER coming directly from her personal archive. See Bunny's credit stamp and signature in pencil on verso. (the writing on the image is a digital watermark and is not on the actual image itself)
- SIZE: approx. 8" x 10" with white border
- TONE: B&W
- FINISH: glossy
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SHIPPING TERMS - I ship all items using, what I call, triple protection packing. The photos are inserted into a display bag with a white board, then packed in between two thick packaging boards and lastly wrapped with plastic film for weather protection before being placed into the shipping envelope. - Includes USPS "Delivery Confirmation" tracking. - Combined Shipping Discounts: If you purchase more than one item within a two week period that will be shipped together just add $2.00 to the base shipping cost. This will cover any additional quantity of a similar item purchased. Please wait for us to issue the final invoice with the reduced shipping cost before making payment. PAYMENT TERMS - Please pay within three (3) days of purchase. - California residents - please wait for me to adjust the invoice to include California Sales Tax of 7.25% and 8.75% for Los Angeles residents. CUSTOMER SERVICE I will respond to all inquiries within 24 hours. Please feel free to contact me anytime at 1-310-880-8140 (Pacific Standard Time)
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BUNNY YEAGER BIO
Linnea Eleanor "Bunny"
Yeager (March 13, 1929 ? May 25, 2014) was
an American photographer and pin-up model.
Linnea Eleanor Yeager was born in
the Pittsburgh
suburb of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania ,
to Raymond Conrad and Linnea (née Sherlin) Yeager on March 13, 1926. Her family
moved to Florida in when she was 17. She adopted the nickname "Bunny"
from Lana
Turner's character Bunny Smith in the 1945 movie Week-End at the Waldorf .
The nickname has also been attributed to her portrayal of the Easter Bunny in a
high school play.
She graduated from Miami Edison High School
and afterwards enrolled at the Coronet Modeling School and Agency. She won
numerous local beauty pageants including in rapid
succession Queen of Miami, Florida Orchid Queen, Miss Trailercoach of Dade
County, Miss Army & Air Force, Miss Personality of Miami Beach, Queen of
the Sports Carnival and Cheesecake Queen of 1951. Yeager became one of the most
photographed models in Miami . Photos of Yeager appeared in over 300
newspapers and magazines.
Yeager also designed and sewed many
of the outfits she and her models wore, at one time boasting that she never
wore the same outfit twice while modeling. She designed and produced hundreds
of bikinis
when the two-piece swimsuit was a new fashion item and is credited with its
popularity in America. Bruno Banani , the German fashion company,
has developed a line of swimwear based on Yeager's designs from the 1950s.
Yeager entered photography to save
money by copying her modeling photographs, enrolling in a night class at a
vocational school in 1953. Her career as a professional photographer began when
a picture of Maria Stinger, taken for her first school assignment, was sold to Eye
magazine for the cover of the March 1954 issue. She became a technically
skilled photographer noted for, among other things, her early use of the fill
flash technique to lighten dark shadows when shooting in bright sun.
Yeager was one of the first photographers to photograph her models outdoors
with natural light. Matt Schudel wrote in The Washington Post that her images
were vivid and dynamic, going on to say, "She favored active poses and a
direct gaze at the camera lens, in what could be interpreted alternately as
playful innocence or pure lust."
She met Bettie
Page in 1954, and took most of the photographs of her that year.
During their brief collaboration she took over 1,000 pictures of Page. Along
with photographer Irving Klaw , Yeager played a role in helping to
make Page famous, particularly with her photos in Playboy
magazine. American Photo magazine described Yeager's work with Page as
"a body of imagery that remains some of the most memorable ? and endearing
? erotica on record" in a 1993 article. The most famous images of Page by
Yeager include the January 1955 Playboy centerfold in which she kneels
wearing only a Santa hat while hanging a silver ornament on a Christmas tree
and a series of photographs with a pair of live cheetahs.
Yeager was a very prolific and
successful pinup photographer in the 1950s and 1960s, so much so, that her work
was described as ubiquitous in that era. She continued to work extensively with
Playboy shooting eight centerfolds in addition to covers and pictorial
spreads. She discovered Lisa Winters , the first Playmate of the Year .
Yeager also appeared in the magazine as a model five times. One appearance with
the headline, "Queen of the Playboy Centerfolds", was photographed by
Hugh
Hefner .
Her work was also published in
mainstream magazines including Cosmopolitan , Esquire , Pageant , Redbook
and Women's Wear Daily . The famous still
images she took of Ursula Andress emerging from the water on
the beach in Jamaica for the 1962 James Bond film Dr.
No are probably her best known bikini
photographs. She discovered many notable models. In the 1970s as men's
magazines became more anatomically graphic Yeager largely stopped photographing
for them, saying they were somewhat "smutty" and that, "They had
girls showing more than they should." In 1998 she stated, "The kind
of photographs they wanted was something I wasn't prepared to do."
An exhibition titled "Beach
Babes Bash" in the early 1990s at the Center for Visual Communication (at
that time located in Coral Gables, Florida) featured photographs by Yeager of
models from Miami on the beach from the 1950s. Another exhibit at the same
gallery featuring Yeager's work was titled "Sex Sirens of the
Sixties." In 1992 Playboy published a retrospective of her work
titled "The Bettie Boom". Since 2002, Yeager's work has been
exhibited in contemporary art galleries .
In early 2010, The Andy Warhol Museum
held the first major museum exhibition of Yeager's work.[8]
The exhibit, "The Legendary Queen of the Pin Up", featured her
self-portraits, some from her book How I Photograph Myself published by
A.S. Barnes & Co. in 1964. "The Fabulous Bunny Yeager" an exhibit
in 2011 at the Harold Golen Gallery in Miami also featuring self-portraits by
Yeager was of photographs that had not been exhibited previously. Also in 2011
Helmut Schuster curated an exhibition for Art
Basel at the Dezer Schauhalle in Miami titled "Bunny Yeager:
Retrospective to the Future" featuring over 200 of Yeager's photos.
Included were some images that had not been shown before of models including
Bettie Page.
In 2012 Bunny Yeager had two
exhibitions in Germany, "Funland" at Gallery Schuster Potsdam and
"Femme Fatale" in December 2012 at Gallery Schuster Berlin.
The Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale
held a 2013 exhibit, "Bunny Yeager: Both Sides of the Camera"
featuring her photographs of herself, Page, and model Paz
de la Huerta . The exhibit also included some of Yeager's first new
pictures in twenty years. Yeager had a show at the Sofia Vault in Sofia , Bulgaria
in October 2013. The Gavlak Gallery in Palm Beach, Florida put on an exhibit,
"Bunny Yeager: Selections from How I Photograph Myself " in
2014. The Sin City Gallery in Las
Vegas held a posthumous exhibit, "Bunny's Bombshells",
from June 5 to July 20 2014.
She had her own studio in the Wynwood Art District of Miami, part of the
Center for Visual Communication. There is a "Bunny Yeager Lounge" in
Berlin which is open to the public and shows photos, memorabilia and movies.
Yeager was also founding editor and publisher of a trade magazine for
entertainment professionals, Florida Stage & Screen . As of 1998 her
24 books had sold over 1 million copies.
Bunny Yeager was married twice,
first to Arthur Irwin who died in 1977 and then to Harry Schaefer who died in
2000. She had two daughters, Lisa and Cherilu. Yeager died on May 25, 2014 of
congestive heart failure at age 85 in North Miami, Florida.
Yeager's obituary in The
Miami Herald called her "one of the country?s most famous
and influential photographers." She has been cited as influencing many
artists and photographers including Diane
Arbus , Cindy Sherman and Yasumasa
Morimura . Arbus called her, "the world?s greatest pinup
photographer."[4] [13]
In The New York Times , Margalit
Fox wrote, "She is widely credited with helping turn the erotic
pinup ? long a murky enterprise in every sense of the word ? into high
photographic art." Her obituary in The
Independent titled, "Bunny Yeager: Pin-up who moved behind
the camera to take influential, iconic shots of Bettie Page and Ursula
Andress" called her photographic technique pioneering and influential.
The Washington Post reported she
"helped define [the] art of erotic photography."
Yeager is credited with helping to
popularize the bikini
in America. The inspiration for the term "cheesecake" in reference to
scantily clad women has been attributed to Yeager. Her books, including Photographing
the Female Figure which sold over 300,000 copies, have influenced several
generations of photographers.
On July 14, 1957, Yeager appeared on
What's My Line? , stumping the panel.
She was also on I've Got a Secret and To
Tell the Truth . She was a guest on The Tonight Show Starring
Johnny Carson in 1966 to discuss her book, How I Photograph
Myself . In 1968 she played the role of a Swedish masseuse opposite Frank
Sinatra in Lady In Cement . She had bit
parts in over half a dozen films including Tony
Rome , Midnight Cowboy , Porky's ,
Dogs of War , Absence
of Malice , Harry
& Son and The
Mean Season . Yeager also had small roles in a number of
television series including Miami
Vice and made occasional appearances singing in Miami
nightclubs.
Yeager was played by Sarah
Paulson in the 2005 film The Notorious Bettie Page .
She was also featured on a 2006 CNN story about the 60th anniversary of the bikini .
In 2005, Cult Epics released the DVD 100 Girls by Bunny Yeager , a
documentary with behind-the-scenes footage on Yeager's photo sessions with Page
and other pin-up models.
Books
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Photographing the Female Figure. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett . 1957.
·
The Diane Weber Album. Compiled by George Harrison Marks. London:
Kamera. 1959.
·
Bunny Yeager's Photo Studies. Louisville, KY: Whitestone. 1960.
·
How to Take Figure Photos. Louisville, KY: Whitestone. 1962.
·
Bunny Yeager's Art of Glamour Photography. Philadelphia: Chilton .
1962.
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How I Photograph Nudes. New York: A.S. Barnes . 1963.
·
How to Photograph the Figure. Louisville, KY: Whitestone. 1963.
·
How I Photograph Myself. New York: A.S. Barnes. 1964.
·
ABC's of Figure Photography. Louisville, KY: Whitestone. 1964.
·
100 Girls: New Concept in Glamour Photography. South Brunswick, NJ:
A.S. Barnes. 1965.
·
?; Floreani, Tony (1965). Drawing the Human Figure Using Photographs.
New York: A.S. Barnes.
·
Camera in the Caribbean. Louisville, KY: Whitestone. 1965.
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Camera in Jamaica. London: Yoseloff. 1966.
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Camera in Mexico. Greenwich, CT: Whitestone. 1967.
·
The 100 Calorie Miracle Diet. New York: Pinnacle .
1975.
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The Amazing 600 Calorie Model's Diet. West Nyack, NY: Parker. 1980.
·
Bettie Page Confidential. New York: St. Martin's . 1994.
·
?; Kroll, Eric (1994). Bunny's Honeys (in English, French, and
German). Cologne, DE: Taschen .
·
Bunny Yeager. 30 Postcards. 67 . Cologne, DE: Taschen. 1995.
·
Betty Page. 30 Postcards. 78 . Cologne, DE: Taschen. 1996.
·
Peepshow: 1950s Pin-ups in 3D. Hombrechtikon, CH: Olms. 2001.
·
Bunny Yeager's Pin-up Girls of the 1950s. Atglen, PA: Schiffer . 2002.
·
Bikini Girls of the 1960s. Atglen, PA: Schiffer. 2002.
·
Bunny Yeager's Bikini Girls of the 1950s. Atglen, PA: Schiffer. 2004.
·
Bunny Yeager's Pin-up Girls of the 1960s. Atglen, PA: Schiffer. 2005.
·
Bunny Yeager's Flirts of the Fifties. Atglen, PA: Schiffer. 2007.
·
Striptease Artists of the 1950s. Atglen, PA: Schiffer. 2008.
·
Femmes Fatales of the 1950s. Atglen, PA: Schiffer. 2008.
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Bunny Yeager?s Bouffant Beauties. Atglen, PA: Schiffer. 2009.
·
Bunny Yeager?s Beautiful Backsides. Schiffer. 2012.
· Mason, Petra.
Bunny Yeager's Darkroom: Pin-up Photography's Golden Era. Foreword by Dita Von
Teese; photographs by Bunny Yeager l year 2012 l Rizzoli
(courtesy of Wikipedia)