Posted on 05/26/2014 7:49:28 AM PDT by lowbridge
Bunny Yeager, a model turned pin-up photographer who helped jump-start the career of then-unknown Bettie Page, died Sunday, her agent said. She was 85 years old.
Yeager died at a North Miami hospice where she had been for about a week, her agent, Ed Christin said.
Yeager’s legacy is her cultural impact, from pin-up photography and fashion, helping to popularize the bikini, and influencing other artists such as Cindy Sherman, who read
Yeager’s guides on photographing nudes and making self-portraits, Christin said. “Anyone in Miami in the 1950s who wanted a bikini would come to her, and she’d make one,” he said.
Yeager became famous for making everyday women, from stay-at-home mothers to airline attendants, feel comfortable enough to bare it all. Her photos of Page in a leopard-print bathing suit standing next to a real cheetah are still well-known today. “They all wanted to model for me because they knew that I wouldn’t take advantage of them,”
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This thread is useless without pictures.
Thanks for the mam..., er, memories, Bunny.
I don’t think she photographed Helen Thomas, sorry.
LOL! You want to see 85 year olds in bikinis? Miami’s getting warm so they may be out there. :>}
Just wow.
Beautiful women are another sign God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Ah, Rolleiflex.
Them and beer.
OTOH, sharia law is proof positive allah hates us and wants us to be miserable.
You GO, girl ... you and Barbara Eden ...
I thought the original quote was about beer abd attributed to Benjamin Franklin. I have tried to confirm this but have failed.
I was born in ‘46. Bettie Page was the first gal to cause me to think, “Hmmmm! Girls!” My Dad bought, I think it was, Photoplay magazine???? Bettie Page? YEAH!
Bunny had those ladies in all kinds of outdoor poses — climbing trees, you name it. I used to peek at those pics at the magazine rack of what used to pass for a convenience store. Convenient, huh.
RIP, Bunny.
I’m a doubtful about the magazine being Photoplay. Bettie Page was famous for her soft-core B&D photos that went to a more disreputable magazine market.
One way to find out for sure is to check your own fantasies that might have been triggered by your first “Hmmmmm! Girls!” experiences. As the twig is bent, etc. etc. :-)
Looking at Bill Clinton staring at Barbara Eden makes me all . . . EEEOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW!
When I was young, it was Sears and Roebucks and Montgomery Wards catalogs or nothing for a while. No Farah Fawcett posters for us. :)
BTW 7-11 type convenience stores were just a new unproven store concept then and didn’t have any magazines, only newspapers. Later when we were older and they started to carry men’s adventure magazines with the racy covers, we discovered the Pinup and Playboy magazines placed next to them on the magazine racks/stand.
Didn’t cost any money to browse but we were asked to leave on more than one occasion. Some stores even removed them and put them behind the counter because of parental disapproval and theft.
BTW, mama didn’t allow no “men’s” magazines in the house.
Might have been something like this;
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1955-ART-PHOTOGRAPHY-VINTAGE-MAGAZINE-BETTIE-PAGE-/201096663070?pt=Magazines&hash=item2ed24b901e
There were several “Photography” magazines that were thinly disguised girlie mags.
And all those Gil Elvgrin calenders in gas stations, lumber yards, hardware stores(Rigid tools), drug stores.
I love to look but at my age I can’t remember why I like to look!
My father bought nothing........ I was stuck looking at women in underwear in the Sears catalogue
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