15 Books Celebrating Icons of Pin-Up Photography: Photographer, Bunny Yeager and Model, Bettie Page
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Photographer Bunny Yeager and pin-up model Bettie Page are both iconic figures in the world of pin-up photography and fashion, with their collaboration producing some of the most memorable images of the 1950s. Here is a detailed look at 15 books featuring their work in no particular order (all their work is awesome!):
Bunny Yeager's Pin-Up Girls of The 1950s
With nearly 200 photographs, this book is a celebration of all the young women with beautiful faces and figures who posed for Bunny in the 1950s as she began her career as a photographer.
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Bunny Yeager's Bikini Girls of The 1950s
Collection of Bunny's work from the 1950s features 169 original photographs and featuring little known models and women she helped launch to fame.
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Femme Fatales of The 1950s
Look out! Here come sixty sultry femmes fatales captured at their most alluring by world famous photographer Bunny Yeager.
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Bunny Yeager's Flirts of the Fifties
World renowned photographer Bunny Yeager brings together 144 of the most beautiful and flirtatious girls from the 1950s.
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Bunny Yeager's Beautiful Backsides
Uncovering the posteriors of Bunny’s top models from the 1950s to the 1970s, this playful and sexy collection features 213 images shot on location
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Bunny Yeager's Pin Up Girls of The 1960s
Featuring the women of the flower-power decade. More than 230 color-packed images with 80 beautiful women, captured in the 1960s
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Bunny Yeager's Bouffant Beauties
Celebrity photographer and model Bunny Yeager picks the best of her mid-century beauties, each sporting an enviable hair-do. You'll get nostalgic as you enjoy the images of pin-up girls sporting the glorious bouffants that were all the rage in the 1960s and '70s. Sporting bikinis, lingerie, or nothing at all, these models flout their femininity for your viewing pleasure. In all, 127 women are featured in big, full-color, full-page spreads, each posing for the camera woman famous for bringing out playfulness and flirtation from her lovely subjects.
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Bunny's Honeys
Bunny's Honeys is a tasteful collection of many other models Miss Yeager photographed during her heyday. Having started herself as a model for US Camera, it wasn't long before she decided to go on the other side of the lens.
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Bunny Yeager's Darkroom
A treasure trove of pin-up girl images from photographer Bunny Yeager, celebrated for her playfully erotic photos of Bettie Page that continue to influence photography and fashion today. The only woman pin-up photographer of her day, Bunny Yeager was also a model in her own right. After winning several beauty pageants in Miami, Yeager went to photography school, and in 1955, she hit the jackpot with her shot of Bettie Page scantily clad in a Santa hat, which sold instantly to the fledgling Playboy magazine. The beginning of a long collaboration, her photographs of Bettie have now been featured on more magazine covers than those of Marilyn Monroe. This glamorous volume gathers more than a hundred lens-fogging photographs embodying the naughty girl-next-door eroticism of pin-up culture. Culled from Yeager’s extensive archive, the collection includes her most iconic shots of the legendary Bettie as well as many previously unpublished images. Yeager’s pioneering self-portraits and excerpts from her charming 1960s how-to manuals are featured alongside dozens of wholesome beauties shot in the studio and on location. A fun and sexy book, it is sure to tap into the current burlesque trend and the popularity of glamour photography and vintage American culture.
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Bunny Yeager's Art of Glamour Photography
Yeager's insights into the technical and artistic aspects of glamour photography
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Bettie Page: Queen of Curves
A treasure trove of never-before-seen playfully erotic photos of legendary pinup girl and style icon Bettie Page, from cult pinup photographer Bunny Yeager
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Betty Page Confidential
Published in 1994 and considered the ultimate collection of Bettie Page photographs by Bunny Yeager
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Bettie Page: The Lost Years
When the documentary Bettie Page Reveals All was released in 2013, it would have been easy to assume we would never again hear directly from the adored icon. Fortunately for the hordes of Bettie fans worldwide, a bounty of unreleased Bettie material awaits. For years–since before Bettie’s death from heart failure in December 2008 at the age of 85–boxes and file folders of Bettie mementoes have been gathering dust in the closets of Bettie’s nephew’s house.
Ron Brem, a musician living in Bakersfield, California, is the only child of Bettie’s beloved sister, Goldie Jane Page. Bettie never had kids, other than three stepchildren during one of her four marriages to three men (she married one twice). Goldie was also an aspiring model and actress but later settled into housewifery before eventually becoming an art teacher and gallery owner. She died during the summer of 2004, but in the several years before her death, she had carefully stored heaps of incredible family photos, the bulk of which feature Bettie as either the sole subject or part of the shot. None of these hundreds of photos has ever been published until now, and few people even know they exist. Goldie also saved approximately 29 letters from Bettie spanning the years 1949 to 2000, ranging in length from note-size to 18 full pages, which tell the unknown story of Bettie’s “lost years” following her retirement from modeling in 1957.
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Bettie Page: The Life of a Pin-Up Legend
The ultimate girl-next-door, and one of the most popular Playboy centerfolds, Bettie Page challenged the conservative 1950s, posing as a fierce dominatrix, and earning both a cult underground following and a Senate Committee investigation. This book chronicles Page's life and career, telling the incredible story of a woman who has left an indeliable mark on the history of popular culture.
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The Early Photographs of Bettie Page
In 1952, Jack Faragasso, a young art student, hired a model for a photo shoot. The model was Bettie Page before her career took off to the heights of being labeled “The Queen of Pin Ups”. Here, for the first time ever, are those photographs from that afternoon session. Outside of a few of the images used as reference for paperback book covers, these pictures have never been seen before.
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These books not only showcase the photographic talents of Bunny Yeager and the iconic status of Bettie Page but also provide insight into the cultural impact of pin-up photography in the 1950s and 1960s. Yeager's work, in particular, helped elevate pin-up photography to an art form, while Page's images continue to influence fashion and popular culture decades after they were taken.
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