10th Year Anniversary
By Artelisted
Dec 1, 2022
10027 Umberland Place Boca Raton, FL 33428 USA, United States
The 10th Years Anniversary Catalog includes unique and very rare historical photography from the American Civil War, a hand signed photo by Howard Hughes, rare books like 1st Edition of The Spy by Joan Harrison, early book of Uncle Tom's Cabin with Illustrations, 1st American Edition of Following The Equator by Mark Twain, a very nice collection of Pokemon cards by a "furious" player during 1990s, fine art paintings, drawings and antique prints by masters and well listed artists, Chinese and Japanese items and vintage woodblocks, original Pin Up Photography including by Bunny Yeager and much more.

LOT 376:

Original Photo Pin Up from Photographer BUNNY YEAGER

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Auction took place on Dec 1, 2022 at Artelisted
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Original Photo Pin Up from Photographer BUNNY YEAGER
This lot is coming from Bunny Yeager's estate/archives. Linnea Eleanor "Bunny" Yeager (March 13, 1929 - May 24, 2014) was an American photographer and pin-up model.

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."

The dimensions are Approx. 10" x 8".

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