Bunny Yeager, Pinup Photographer, Dies at 85

[sonnymax]

Bunny Yeager, a model-turned-photographer whose images of a scarcely clad Bettie Page, embodying feral sexuality and winsome naïveté all at once, helped propel Ms. Page to international stardom as a midcentury pinup queen, died on Sunday in North Miami, Fla. She was 85.

The cause was congestive heart failure, said her agent, Ed Christin.

Ms. Yeager, who took up her art by accident, 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 — long a murky enterprise in every sense of the word — into high photographic art.

New York Times obit

It also deserves mentioning that Bunny was a beautiful and successful model before taking her place behind the camera.

[Jazzmoose]

Interesting. I have an LP that uses a photo from the shoot with the leopards. Never played it; just picked it up for the cover photo.

[Bright Moments]

RIP Bunny

[Chuck Nessa]

Is there another thread or was my post deleted. Memory sometimes fails.

[Bright Moments]

Have not seen your post Chuck.