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ORIGINAL: angelikaJ

"...Ms. Yeager was one of the world’s most celebrated photographers of female nudes and near-nudes of the 1950s and ’60s. She is widely credited with helping turn the erotic pinup into high photographic art. The most conspicuous hallmark of her work was her use of vibrant, natural-looking models, who exuded a confident, female sexuality.

Her work appeared in Playboy, for which she shot a string of centerfolds, and in a spate of postwar men’s magazines – Cavalier, Escapade, Nugget, Fling, Sunbathing, National Police Gazette, Figure Quarterly. Her work fell dormant in the 1970s and remained so for decades as many of those magazines folded, but has lately enjoyed a renaissance. In 2010, the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh mounted a show – the first museum exhibition of Ms. Yeager’s career – of her self-portraits. And “Bunny Yeager: Both Sides of the Camera” was on view last year at the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale.

For all the luminous women she photographed, she remained best known for her work with Ms. Page, whom she shot a thousand times during their brief collaboration in 1954. Ms. Yeager was played by Sarah Paulson in the 2005 film The Notorious Bettie Page. ..."


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