Pho·tog Friday: Bunny Yeager (Part II)

Yeager, Bunny, Self-Portrait, ND.
As noted in Part I of this Pho·tog Friday series on Bunny Yeager, she earned her claim to fame as a pin-up model and then as a pin-up photographer.  I think it is important to note that Yeager always considered her pin-up photography to be tasteful; her subjects may have been partially or fully nude at times, although the images did not veer towards pornography or similar sub-genres.

Slowly but surely, Yeager's images started to make their way into the contemporary art world.  In the early 1990's, Yeager's work was featured in a show at the Center for Visual Communication, which was located in Coral Gables, Florida at the time.  The show focused on the images Yeager had shot during the 1950s of different models on the beach and was titled "Beach Babes Bash".  

Yeager, Bunny, Low Light Nude #1, Miami, FL. Late 1950’s
Yeager, Bunny, (left) Marci Lane on Mid-Century Sofa-Miami, FL. & (right) Bettie Page on Couch, Clark Gables, FL, late 1950’s & 1954.
Yeager, Bunny, (left) Fire College, Girls on Ladder, Miami, FL., & (right) Fire College, Polishing with Chrome, Miami, FL., 1955.
Yeager, Bunny. Bunny in Hand-Made Daisy Bikini, Miami, FL. & Nude in Naples, FL. 1955 & 1959.
Yeager, Bunny, Dondi Penn with Chimpanzee, 1959.
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