Vintage 1954 Bettie Page Contact Print Photo Two Image Hand Signed Bunny Yeager
Item History & Price
ITEM: You are bidding on a pair of original C. 1954 black and white gelatin silver photographs of Bettie Page taken by Bunny Yeager. This was taken along the secluded shores of Crandon State Park on the Atlantic Ocean in Miami Beach. These two images are vintage - and cut years ago from the original C. 1954 contact sheet they appeared on. A rarity for sure - the pin-up legend looking hot and iconic in two sultry classic cheesecake Bettie Page pose! Verso is neatly hand sign...ed by Yeager in pencil as seen
CONDITION: Very good condition, this was quickly cut from the contact sheet by Yeager years ago - and has some uneven corners as such - never before on the market a unique photograph from Yeager's Miami estate.
Measures 2 3/4" by 5 1/8" each image measures approx. 2 1/2" square
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
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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Yeager’s archive includes thousands of never-before-seen and many unpublished camera images of leading glamour and cheesecake models, unique camera negatives & transparencies, photographs, contact sheets, original model costumes, props,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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CONDITION: Very good condition, this was quickly cut from the contact sheet by Yeager years ago - and has some uneven corners as such - never before on the market a unique photograph from Yeager's Miami estate.
Measures 2 3/4" by 5 1/8" each image measures approx. 2 1/2" square
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
••••••••••••••••••••
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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