LYNDA SOUTHWORTH Nude Model Fine Art 1962 Bunny Yeager Archive Model Release

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THE BUNNY YEAGER ARCHIVE
PROVENANCE:
This offered item is authentic original coming directly from the archive of iconic 20th Century photographer
BUNNY YEAGER
, which is now owned by
GRAPEFRUIT MOON GALLERY
. Bunny Yeager is known as the one of the greatest pin-up and self-portrait photographers of her century.
CLASSICPINUPS
is owned by Ebay seller
MyMovieMemorabilia
(100% feedback & over 5,000 sales) and is the only third party authorized seller by Grapefruit Moon Gallery offering Bunny Yeager vintage original camera negatives/transparencies and photographic images. A large portion of Bunny's archive has been left virtually untouched for almost 60 years. Many images are unpublished and have never been seen before.
A
Certificate of Authenticity
for this item will be included with the ship
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DESCRIPTION:
EXTREMELY RARE!
Vintage 1962
8 1/2" x 11" signed model release for
22 year-old pin-up model LYNDA SOUTHWORTH (real name LINDA ARGENT) from photographer BUNNY YEAGER's
personal archive.
This typewritten model release, dated Nov. 13, 1962, is signed by both Ms. Southworth in blue ballpoint ink. It gives details on her birthdate, height, weight, measurements, as well as her hobbies.
- SIZE: 8 1/2" X 11"
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BUNNY YEAGER BIO
Linnea Eleanor "Bunny" Yeager
(March 13, 1929 ? May 25, 2014) was an American photographer and
pin-up
model.
Linnea Eleanor Yeager was born in the
Pittsburgh
suburb of
Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania
, to Raymond Conrad and Linnea (née Sherlin) Yeager on March 13, 1926. Her family moved to Florida in when she was 17. She adopted the nickname "Bunny" from
Lana Turner's
character Bunny Smith in the 1945 movie
Week-End at the Waldorf
. The nickname has also been attributed to her portrayal of the Easter Bunny in a high school play.
She graduated from
Miami Edison High School
and afterwards enrolled at the Coronet Modeling School and Agency. She won numerous local
beauty pageants
including in rapid succession Queen of Miami, Florida Orchid Queen, Miss Trailercoach of Dade County, Miss Army & Air Force, Miss Personality of Miami Beach, Queen of the Sports Carnival and Cheesecake Queen of 1951. Yeager became one of the most photographed models in
Miami
. Photos of Yeager appeared in over 300 newspapers and magazines.
Yeager also designed and sewed many of the outfits she and her models wore, at one time boasting that she never wore the same outfit twice while modeling. She designed and produced hundreds of
bikinis
when the two-piece swimsuit was a new fashion item and is credited with its popularity in America.
Bruno Banani
, the German fashion company, has developed a line of swimwear based on Yeager's designs from the 1950s.
Yeager entered photography to save money by copying her modeling photographs, enrolling in a night class at a vocational school in 1953. Her career as a professional photographer began when a picture of Maria Stinger, taken for her first school assignment, was sold to
Eye
magazine for the cover of the March 1954 issue. She became a technically skilled photographer noted for, among other things, her early use of the
fill flash
technique to lighten dark shadows when shooting in bright sun. Yeager was one of the first photographers to photograph her models outdoors with natural light. Matt Schudel wrote in
The Washington Post
that her images were vivid and dynamic, going on to say, "She favored active poses and a direct gaze at the camera lens, in what could be interpreted alternately as playful innocence or pure lust."
She met
Bettie Page
in 1954, and took most of the photographs of her that year. During their brief collaboration she took over 1,000 pictures of Page. Along with photographer
Irving Klaw
, Yeager played a role in helping to make Page famous, particularly with her photos in
Playboy
magazine.
American Photo
magazine described Yeager's work with Page as "a body of imagery that remains some of the most memorable ? and endearing ? erotica on record" in a 1993 article. The most famous images of Page by Yeager include the January 1955
Playboy
centerfold in which she kneels wearing only a Santa hat while hanging a silver ornament on a Christmas tree and a series of photographs with a pair of live cheetahs.
Yeager was a very prolific and successful pinup photographer in the 1950s and 1960s, so much so, that her work was described as ubiquitous in that era. She continued to work extensively with
Playboy
shooting eight centerfolds in addition to covers and pictorial spreads. She discovered
Lisa Winters
, the first
Playmate of the Year
. Yeager also appeared in the magazine as a model five times. One appearance with the headline, "Queen of the Playboy Centerfolds", was photographed by
Hugh Hefner
.
Her work was also published in mainstream magazines including
Cosmopolitan
,
Esquire
,
Pageant
,
Redbook
and
Women's Wear Daily
. The famous still images she took of
Ursula Andress
emerging from the water on the beach in Jamaica for the 1962 James Bond film
Dr. No
are probably her best known
bikini
photographs. She discovered many notable models. In the 1970s as men's magazines became more anatomically graphic Yeager largely stopped photographing for them, saying they were somewhat "smutty" and that, "They had girls showing more than they should." In 1998 she stated, "The kind of photographs they wanted was something I wasn't prepared to do."
An exhibition titled "Beach Babes Bash" in the early 1990s at the Center for Visual Communication (at that time located in Coral Gables, Florida) featured photographs by Yeager of models from Miami on the beach from the 1950s. Another exhibit at the same gallery featuring Yeager's work was titled "Sex Sirens of the Sixties." In 1992
Playboy
published a retrospective of her work titled "The Bettie Boom". Since 2002, Yeager's work has been exhibited in
contemporary art galleries
.
In early 2010,
The Andy Warhol Museum
held the first major museum exhibition of Yeager's work.
[8]
The exhibit, "The Legendary Queen of the Pin Up", featured her self-portraits, some from her book
How I Photograph Myself
published by A.S. Barnes & Co. in 1964. "The Fabulous Bunny Yeager" an exhibit in 2011 at the Harold Golen Gallery in Miami also featuring self-portraits by Yeager was of photographs that had not been exhibited previously. Also in 2011 Helmut Schuster curated an exhibition for
Art Basel
at the Dezer Schauhalle in Miami titled "Bunny Yeager: Retrospective to the Future" featuring over 200 of Yeager's photos. Included were some images that had not been shown before of models including Bettie Page.
In 2012 Bunny Yeager had two exhibitions in Germany, "Funland" at Gallery Schuster Potsdam and "Femme Fatale" in December 2012 at Gallery Schuster Berlin.
The
Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale
held a 2013 exhibit, "Bunny Yeager: Both Sides of the Camera" featuring her photographs of herself, Page, and model
Paz de la Huerta
. The exhibit also included some of Yeager's first new pictures in twenty years. Yeager had a show at the Sofia Vault in
Sofia
, Bulgaria in October 2013. The Gavlak Gallery in Palm Beach, Florida put on an exhibit, "Bunny Yeager: Selections from
How I Photograph Myself
" in 2014. The Sin City Gallery in
Las Vegas
held a posthumous exhibit, "Bunny's Bombshells", from June 5 to July 20 2014.
She had her own studio in the
Wynwood Art District
of Miami, part of the Center for Visual Communication. There is a "Bunny Yeager Lounge" in Berlin which is open to the public and shows photos, memorabilia and movies. Yeager was also founding editor and publisher of a trade magazine for entertainment professionals,
Florida Stage & Screen
. As of 1998 her 24 books had sold over 1 million copies.
Bunny Yeager was married twice, first to Arthur Irwin who died in 1977 and then to Harry Schaefer who died in 2000. She had two daughters, Lisa and Cherilu. Yeager died on May 25, 2014 of congestive heart failure at age 85 in North Miami, Florida.
Yeager's obituary in
The Miami Herald
called her "one of the country?s most famous and influential photographers." She has been cited as influencing many artists and photographers including
Diane Arbus
,
Cindy Sherman
and
Yasumasa Morimura
. Arbus called her, "the world?s greatest pinup photographer."
[4]
[13]
In
The New York Times
,
Margalit Fox
wrote, "She is widely credited with helping turn the erotic pinup ? long a murky enterprise in every sense of the word ? into high photographic art." Her obituary in
The Independent
titled, "Bunny Yeager: Pin-up who moved behind the camera to take influential, iconic shots of Bettie Page and Ursula Andress" called her photographic technique pioneering and influential
.
The Washington Post
reported she "helped define [the] art of erotic photography."
Yeager is credited with helping to popularize the
bikini
in America. The inspiration for the term "cheesecake" in reference to scantily clad women has been attributed to Yeager. Her books, including
Photographing the Female Figure
which sold over 300,000 copies, have influenced several generations of photographers.
On July 14, 1957, Yeager appeared on
What's My Line?
, stumping the panel. She was also on
I've Got a Secret
and
To Tell the Truth
. She was a guest on
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
in 1966 to discuss her book,
How I Photograph Myself
. In 1968 she played the role of a Swedish masseuse opposite
Frank Sinatra
in
Lady In Cement
. She had
bit parts
in over half a dozen films including
Tony Rome
,
Midnight Cowboy
,
Porky's
,
Dogs of War
,
Absence of Malice
,
Harry & Son
and
The Mean Season
. Yeager also had small roles in a number of television series including
Miami Vice
and made occasional appearances singing in Miami nightclubs.
Yeager was played by
Sarah Paulson
in the 2005 film
The Notorious Bettie Page
. She was also featured on a 2006
CNN
story about the 60th anniversary of the
bikini
. In 2005, Cult Epics released the DVD
100 Girls by Bunny Yeager
, a documentary with behind-the-scenes footage on Yeager's photo sessions with Page and other pin-up models.
Books
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Photographing the Female Figure. Greenwich, CT:
Fawcett
. 1957.
·
The Diane Weber Album. Compiled by George Harrison Marks. London: Kamera. 1959.
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Bunny Yeager's Photo Studies. Louisville, KY: Whitestone. 1960.
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How to Take Figure Photos. Louisville, KY: Whitestone. 1962.
·
Bunny Yeager's Art of Glamour Photography. Philadelphia:
Chilton
. 1962.
·
How I Photograph Nudes. New York:
A.S. Barnes
. 1963.
·
How to Photograph the Figure. Louisville, KY: Whitestone. 1963.
·
How I Photograph Myself. New York: A.S. Barnes. 1964.
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ABC's of Figure Photography. Louisville, KY: Whitestone. 1964.
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100 Girls: New Concept in Glamour Photography. South Brunswick, NJ: A.S. Barnes. 1965.
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?; Floreani, Tony (1965). Drawing the Human Figure Using Photographs. New York: A.S. Barnes.
·
Camera in the Caribbean. Louisville, KY: Whitestone. 1965.
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Camera in Jamaica. London: Yoseloff. 1966.
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Camera in Mexico. Greenwich, CT: Whitestone. 1967.
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The 100 Calorie Miracle Diet. New York:
Pinnacle
. 1975.
·
The Amazing 600 Calorie Model's Diet. West Nyack, NY: Parker. 1980.
·
Bettie Page Confidential. New York:
St. Martin's
. 1994.
·
?; Kroll, Eric (1994). Bunny's Honeys (in English, French, and German). Cologne, DE:
Taschen
.
·
Bunny Yeager. 30 Postcards.
67
. Cologne, DE: Taschen. 1995.
·
Betty Page. 30 Postcards.
78
. Cologne, DE: Taschen. 1996.
·
Peepshow: 1950s Pin-ups in 3D. Hombrechtikon, CH: Olms. 2001.
·
Bunny Yeager's Pin-up Girls of the 1950s. Atglen, PA:
Schiffer
. 2002.
·
Bikini Girls of the 1960s. Atglen, PA: Schiffer. 2002.
·
Bunny Yeager's Bikini Girls of the 1950s. Atglen, PA: Schiffer. 2004.
·
Bunny Yeager's Pin-up Girls of the 1960s. Atglen, PA: Schiffer. 2005.
·
Bunny Yeager's Flirts of the Fifties. Atglen, PA: Schiffer. 2007.
·
Striptease Artists of the 1950s. Atglen, PA: Schiffer. 2008.
·
Femmes Fatales of the 1950s. Atglen, PA: Schiffer. 2008.
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Bunny Yeager?s Bouffant Beauties. Atglen, PA: Schiffer. 2009.
·
Bunny Yeager?s Beautiful Backsides. Schiffer. 2012.
·
Mason, Petra. Bunny Yeager's Darkroom: Pin-up Photography's Golden Era. Foreword by Dita Von Teese; photographs by Bunny Yeager l year 2012 l Rizzoli
(courtesy of Wikipedia)