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1950s

In this image, shot with self-timer, Yeager readies one of her cameras as three models apply make up and get ready for their upcoming beach photo shoot.

Bunny with Models including Bettie Page Prepping for Photo Shoot

Artist: Bunny Yeager

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: 1950s, black & white photography, Bunny Yeager, fine art photography, florida, Glamour Photography, pin up, pin up photography
Added to Gallery: April 30, 2020

Bunny Yeager & Bettie Page, an incomparable duo Bunny Yeager, the pre-eminent female pin-up photographer of the 20th century took this photograph of Bettie Page, a classic cheesecake pin-up view of the iconic model reclined on a couch with her legs up in the air, during the year-long partnership which changed the course of both […]

Bettie Page Reclining on Sofa at Coral Gables, FL

Artist: Bunny Yeager

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Bettie Page, black & white photography, Bunny Yeager, fine art photography, florida, Glamour Photography, pin up, pin up photography
Added to Gallery: April 24, 2020

Bettie Page with Knife Seated on Driftwood

  Bunny Yeager, the pre-eminent female pin-up photographer of the 20th century took this photograph of Bettie Page in her iconic “Jungle Bettie” animal print costume with a knife strapped to her thigh as she poses with driftwood at Miami Beach, Florida. This was taken during the year-long partnership which changed the course of both […]

Bettie Page with Knife Seated on Driftwood

Artist: Bunny Yeager

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Bettie Page, black & white photography, Bunny Yeager, fine art photography, florida, Glamour Photography, Miami, pin up, pin up photography
Added to Gallery: March 1, 2020

Bunny Yeager & Bettie Page, an incomparable duo 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. One of the only female photographers working in the pin-up and nude genres, she […]

Christmas Bettie Page (Playboy Centerfold)

Artist: Bunny Yeager

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Bettie Page, black & white photography, Bunny Yeager, christmas, fine art photography, Glamour Photography, negative, nude, pin up, pin up photography, playboy
Added to Gallery: February 22, 2020

Bunny Yeager, the pre-eminent female pin-up photographer of the 20th century took this pin up self-portrait in 1959. The artist and model showcases her draw on both sides of the camera by posing in a large barrel, soaping up her peroxide blonde locks while taking an outdoor bath in Miami, Florida.

Bunny Yeager Self-Portrait in Barrel

Artist: Bunny Yeager

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, black & white photography, blonde, Bunny Yeager, fine art photography, florida, Glamour Photography, Miami, pin up, pin up photography, self portrait
Added to Gallery: February 2, 2020

Bunny Yeager’s 1950s work with models of color is deeply serious, and at times, even reverent. Unfortunately, much of it has remained unseen until recently.

Bunny Yeager in the Miami Herald

Filed Under: Gallery Blog
Tagged With: 1950s, 1960s, Bunny Yeager, florida, Glamour Photography, Miami, pin up, pin up photography
Added to Gallery: January 13, 2020

Bettie Page by Bunny Yeager Bunny Yeager, the pre-eminent female pin-up photographer of the 20th century took this photograph of Bettie Page wearing a bikini designed and handmade by Bunny. Bettie is vamping hard for the camera in this cheesecake pin-up photo from her perch on a pier at Miami Beach, Florida. This was taken […]

Bettie Page Seated on Pier

Artist: Bunny Yeager

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, bathing beauty, Bettie Page, bikini, black & white photography, Bunny Yeager, fine art photography, florida, Glamour Photography, Miami, ocean, pin up, pin up photography
Added to Gallery: August 25, 2019

    This is an exciting, fresh-to-the-market paperback book cover illustration by Al Schmidt for the 1952 Cardinal Complete Book Edition of The White Tower by James Ramsey Ullman. The text slug on the paperback reads, “Five men and one woman gazed upward at Weissturm – The White Tower – hypnotized by the beckoning shadows […]

The White Tower

Artist: Al Schmidt

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Golden Age, illustration, lurid, original cover art, original illustration art, paperback, pulp
Added to Gallery: June 3, 2019

This vintage illustration features a disheveled Jimmy Stewart type in rumpled raincoat and hat, being side-eyed with disdain. The other fellow appears to be wearing last night’s tuxedo, if the stack of pancakes is any indication. Since we have yet identified the use or artist of this piece, we can’t do more than speculate on […]

Meeting At A Diner

Artist: American Artist

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
Tagged With: 1950s, en grisaille, Golden Age, Men's Magazine art, noir, original illustration art, original interior illustration, pulp
Added to Gallery: May 22, 2019

      This original pin-up calendar painting by Art Frahm appeared in 1952 under the title Spare? and nows lives in pop culture infamy as one of the artist’s “Embarrassment Series” images. In this oil on canvas painting a startled pretty but hapless young blonde bowls a frame and loses her undergarments much to […]

Spare?

Artist: Art Frahm

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Art Frahm, Bowling, Calendar, Charles Martignette, cheesecake, original calendar art, original illustration art, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: April 1, 2019

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