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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RIP.
Unstoppable hotness.
Despite the wonders of digital cameras, I still like quality black and white.
Sorry, woofie. I posted before I saw your picture.
>>I thought the original quote was about beer abd attributed to Benjamin Franklin. I have tried to confirm this but have failed.
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Lore says you are correct.
I just stole it b/c I think it is so :)
yours is better
I’ll repeat myself, and say;
“Hmmmm! Girls!”
I told Mrs. JimRed that the day I stop looking, she'd better bury me!
Two words.
Sears Catalogue.
LOL! before I saw your comment I posted about that heh.
Bras or bloomers?
Sears Catalogue
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Yep, very stimulating reading back in the old days. :)
A shrunken Voodoo doll?
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Is that picture before or after the sex change?
I agree for the most part. Life is good whith a few brews and a pretty woman by your side.
Am I allowed to say both? heh
I took typing one semester in High School. I wasn't very good and the typing teacher suggested I not take Typing 2 for the second semester. Since there weren't many semester options I ended up taking Library Science. The librarian didn't really cotton to boys working in the library so she put me in the back room to sort magazines. It was there I discovered photography magazines. I'm sure she never looked through them or they wouldn't have been on the shelves.
Of course!
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