Bunny Yeager

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Bunny Yeager (2012)

Bunny Yeager (* 13. March 1930 in Wilkinsburg , Pennsylvania ; † 25. May 2014 in North Miami , Florida ) was an American photographer and a former pin-up - Model .

Life

Yeager was born Linnea Eleanor Yeager in Wilkinsburg , Pennsylvania , and began her career as a fashion model after graduating from Miami Edison Sr. High School . A short time later she began to work as a pin-up model, but was mainly interested in working behind the camera and attended courses in photography. Her own work as a pin-up girl earned her the nickname the most beautiful photographer in the world .

In addition to the photographer Irving Klaw , Yeager played a decisive role in the discovery of Bettie Page , whom she met in Florida in 1954, and to whose popularity Yeager's photographs played a major part. "The reason why most models like to work with women photographers," Yeager explained in an interview in 2011, "is that they felt safe from any sexual advances made by a male photographer."

1962, when shooting with Ursula Andress for the James Bond film Dr. No , she discovered her preference for tropical sets and designed two photo books with motifs from Jamaica . Yeager dealt with nude and erotic photography until the 1970s , before she mainly turned to portrait photography due to the increasing hardness in this genre and published over 20 books.

Sarah Paulson played Yeager in the 2005 film adaptation of the biographical film The Notorious Bettie Page . CNN portrayed Yeager in a broadcast on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the bikini , which Yeager not only used in her photos, but mostly sewed and designed for her models herself.

In 2010 the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh hosted the first exhibition on Yeager's photographic work. Most of these exhibited photographs were first published in 1964 in Yeager's book How I Photograph Myself by AS Barnes & Co.

The Berlin gallery Schuster , which also has a branch in Miami, Florida, has been the official representative of Yeager's photographic works of art since 2011.

Exhibitions

  • In November 2011, the Dezer Show Hall in Miami hosted a retrospective of Yeager's artistic work. Among other things, previously unpublished pictures of various photo models including the late Bettie Page were presented.
  • 2013: Bunny Yeager: Both Sides of the Camera . Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale , Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.

Literature (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pin-up Photographer Bunny Yeager Dies at 85
  2. ↑ Retro Girls: Bunny Yeager ( Memento from May 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Last accessed May 17, 2008
  3. ↑ a b Stern.de of April 17, 2003: Claudia Fudeus: Bunny Yeager: The "Most Beautiful Photographer in the World" ( Memento of July 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Interview with Stefan Gerhard ( Memento from April 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) for mare
  5. ↑ The Notorious Bettie Page. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Transcript of the CNN program In the Money , broadcast on July 9, 2006 at 3:00 p.m. Last accessed on May 17, 2008
  7. ↑ Bunny Yeager: The Legendary Queen of the Pin-Up. ( Memento of August 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.95 MB)
  8. ^ Gallery Schuster
  9. ↑ Dezer Schauhalle Miami ( Memento from November 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Yeager, bunny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yeager, Linnea Eleanor (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer and model
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilkinsburg , Pennsylvania , USA
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 2014
Place of death North Miami , Florida , USA