Bunny Yeager’s Darkroom
Pinup Photography’s Golden Era
SIGNED Bunny Yeager
Petra Mason
New York. Rizzoli. 2012. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by Bunny
Yeager on a card which is affixed to page 2 beneath Bunny Yeager's image. 9.5 x 11.5 inches. 256 pages. Very good.
A treasure trove of pin-up girl
images from photographer Bunny Yeager, celebrated for her playfully erotic
photos of Bettie Page that continue to influence photography and fashion today.
The only woman pin-up photographer of her day, Bunny Yeager was also a model in
her own right. After winning several beauty pageants in Miami, Yeager went to photography school, and in 1955, she hit
the jackpot with her shot of Bettie Page scantily clad in a Santa hat, which
sold instantly to the fledgling Playboy magazine. This was the beginning of a
long collaboration; her photographs of Bettie have now been featured on more
magazine covers than those of Marilyn Monroe. And there are plenty of them here: frolics at the beach, goofing in
a scanty leopard-skin outfit like Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, and intimate
boudoir shots with all the sultry looks Bettie was great with. This glamorous
volume gathers more than a hundred photographs embodying the naughty
girl-next-door eroticism of pin-up culture. Culled from Yeager’s extensive
archive, the collection includes her most iconic shots of the legendary Bettie
as well as many previously unpublished images. The endpapers are actual
outtakes of a Bettie session: 24 shots. The book begins with an entire chapter
on the lovely Bunny herself from her own modeling career. And this includes all
of Bunny's most famous models, both iconic shots and never-before-seen
outtakes. Yeager’s pioneering self-portraits and excerpts from her charming
1960s how-to manuals, plus her own interview with Bettie Page, are also
featured.
Very good. Light wear to the boards. Minor soiling. Right angle crease to the lower right hand corner front board. Slight spine lean. Internally, hinges sound. Binding tight. Photographs clean and bright.
SIGNED by Bunny Yeager on a card affixed to page 2.