\"Photographer\" Bunny Yeager Signed 11X14 B&W Photo With Cloth Swatch COA for Sale

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\"Photographer\" Bunny Yeager Signed 11X14 B&W Photo With Cloth Swatch COA:
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Up for sale\"Photographer\" Bunny Yeager Hand Signed 11X14 B&W Photo With Cloth Swatch From Her Shown Outfit.This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller Autographs and comes withtheir Certificate of Authenticity.
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Linnea Eleanor \"Bunny\" Yeager(March 13, 1929 – May 25, 2014) was an American photographer andpin-upmodel. Linnea Eleanor Yeager was born in thePittsburghsuburb ofWilkinsburg, 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\" fromLana Turner\'scharacter Bunny Smith in the 1945 movieWeek-End at the Waldorf. The nickname has also been attributed to her portrayal of the Easter Bunny in a high school play.She graduated fromMiami Edison High Schooland afterwards enrolled at the Coronet Modeling School and Agency. She won numerous localbeauty pageantsincluding 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 inMiami. 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 ofbikiniswhen 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 toEyemagazine for the cover of the March 1954 issue. She became a technically skilled photographer noted for, among other things, her early use of thefill flashtechnique 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 inThe Washington Postthat 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 metBettie Pagein 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 photographerIrving Klaw, Yeager played a role in helping to make Page famous, particularly with her photos inPlayboymagazine.American Photomagazine 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 1955Playboycenterfold 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 withPlayboyshooting eight centerfolds in addition to covers and pictorial spreads. She discoveredLisa Winters, the firstPlaymate 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 byHugh Hefner.Her work was also published in mainstream magazines Wear Daily. The famous still images she took ofUrsula Andressemerging from the water on the beach in Jamaica for the 1962 James Bond filmDr. Noare probably her best knownbikiniphotographs. 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.\"