' 50s Bunny Yeager Archive Contact Photograph MARIA STINGER Bustier Topless PinUp




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Reference Number: Avaluer:26475671Region of Origin: Miami, United States
Model: Maria StingerModified Item: No
Special Feature: From the Miami Estate of Bunny YeagerFraming: Unframed
Color: Black & WhiteSize Type/Largest Dimension: 10" x 8"
Photo Type: Gelatin SilverListed By: Dealer or Reseller
Subject: PinupsDate of Creation: 1950s
Original/Reprint: Original PrintPhotographer: Bunny Yeager
Original Description:
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 Gall...ery 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 Many images are unpublished and have never been seen before.

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DESCRIPTION: EXTREMELY RARE! Vintage 1950s pin-up model MARIA STINGER (AKA Miami's "MARILYN MONROE") (see her bio below) 10" x 8" contact print photograph (one image has been cut out) taken by photographer BUNNY YEAGER  coming directly from her personal archive. Maria is one of the top pin-up models of the golden era who has yet to receive proper acknowledgement and her tragic life mirrored that of Miss Monroe in many ways - see bio below).
SIZE: 10" x 8"TONE: B&WGlossy
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I will respond to all inquiries within 24 hours. Please feel free to contact me anytime at 1-310-880-8140 (Pacific Standard Time)_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ MARIA STINGER BIO Born   1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Died November, 1967  (suicide by overdose of sleeping pills) Lovely, buxom, and shapely knockoutMaria Stinger was a 1950's pin-up model who bore a striking resemblance toMarilyn Monroe. Maria was born out of wedlock in 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her father was an Anglo-Irish policeman. Stinger moved to Miami, Florida in October, 1948. She met her future husband Harry Walter Stinger in1949 and married him later that same year. In 1953 Maria was introduced tonoted glamor photographer Bunny Yeager by fellow glamor photographer BillHamilton. Stinger holds the distinction of being the first model to pose forYeager; a photo of her taken by Yeager graced the cover of the March, 1954issue of the magazine "Eye - People and Pictures." Among the men'smagazines Maria did pictorials for are "Caper, " "Gala, ""Glance, " and "Rogue." In October, 1954 Stinger was crownedMiami's Marilyn Monroe in a beauty contest that was sponsored by the localnewspaper "The Miami Herald." Maria went on to participate in theMiss Florida beauty contest around that same time. In late 1954 she posed forbondage-style pictures for famous fetish photographer Irving Klaw. Mariaappeared in several nudie cutie soft-core features made throughout the 1960's.In 1964 Stinger attempted suicide by overdosing on pills. Although she hadthree daughters with Harry Walter Stinger, Maria nonetheless still divorced himin February, 1965. Stinger then moved to Columbia, South Carolina. MariaStinger committed suicide at the tragically young age of 36 by overdosing onpills in November, 1967.Bio by Maria?s granddaughter, Christie Strong, who is planning a book and documentary on her grandmother:Maria Stinger was a bombshell in herday. Throughout the 1950s and '60s, Stinger was a popular pin-up model, workingwith the likes of famed pinup and photographer Bunny Yeager. She was renownedfor her resemblance to the iconic Marilyn Monroe. Then, at 34 years old, Stinger took her own life.But her story doesn't end there. Ahalf-century later, her suicide would inspire her granddaughter's firstdocumentary.Three years ago, documentary editorChristie Strong, Stinger's granddaughter, had an epiphany. "I always knewthat I was going to tell Maria's story, even when I was younger. It was just amatter of how and when, " said Strong. But a boy got in her way. "I gotswept up on this epic adventure and romance. I began dating this otherfilmmaker, we traveled the world, I started helping him with his projects, andI completely put my project down, " said Strong. Three years later theromance ended and it hit her, hard."When the relationship ended, Irealized there were a lot of parallels between her life and mine. I put a lotof aspects of myself down, and that's something my grandmother did too. Shenever had a chance to develop her own identity, and that's part of the reasonshe killed herself, " said Christie. That's when Christie realized that hergrandmother's story had modern-day resonance. Maria Stringer was 34 when shedecided to kill herself and Christie is 34 now; the timing could not be moreperfect.After traveling to India to put herlife back together after the break up, Strong moved back to Miami in March. Sobegan what she considers her new beginning. Her upcoming documentary, Bombshell:The Life and Death of a Pin Up, explores the life of Maria Stinger and theevents that led to her suicide."'Bombshell' has been a namefloating around her for some time. She was a hot, blonde lady. She was on thecover of a book about pin-up models in the '50s called Bombshells: GlamourGirls of a Lifetime and was on MAC Cosmetics' Bombshell campaign in theyear 2000, " said Christie.Maria Stinger was known as Miami'sMarilyn Monroe because she really, really resembled the troubled beauty."There are a ton of parallels. They were both married young and dealt withdepression and alcoholism, " said Christie. A person so entangled in a lifesimilar to Monroe's was bound to follow in her footsteps.Strong's approach to the documentaryis to interview Maria's surviving friends, including her grandfather andgrandmother's ex-husband, friends, daughters, and high-profile women who havedealt with similar troubles. Bunny Yeager, Maria's best friend, is a famedlocal pin-up photographer who has been incredibly supportive of the project.Bunny hopes to give Strong a chance to step into her grandmother's shoes byshooting her. "This is such a complex project for me, so I want to exploreall of the different levels and pieces, " said Strong.In doing so, her grandmother'sill-fated life has given Strong the chance to embark on a new adventure that'sonly helping her move forward. "I want people to know that there's alwaystime for a new beginning, and this project is mine. I've always worked forother people's projects, mostly men, so I'm so excited to put my voice outthere and show people what I'm capable of and who I am, " said Strong.Strong intends the project to beabout more than Maria Stinger's life and her own resurgence. She hopes theaudience sees that her documentary tells a story many women go through; manypeople reach a moment where you feel you've lost and let go of everything."I was losing my identity, " said Strong."For me it was about the layersof meaning that the word [bombshell] has. This idea that she was beautiful onthe exterior, but inside she was harboring a secret that was dangerous andexplosive. She had a beautiful life and family, but underneath the surface shedid nude film, and underneath that there was the secret that she didn't valueherself or her life, " said Strong._________________________________________________________________________________________________________BUNNY YEAGER BIOLinnea Eleanor "Bunny"Yeager (March 13, 1929 ? May 25, 2014) wasan American photographer and pin-up model. Linnea Eleanor Yeager was born inthe Pittsburghsuburb of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, to Raymond Conrad and Linnea (née Sherlin) Yeager on March 13, 1926. Her familymoved to Florida in when she was 17. She adopted the nickname "Bunny"from LanaTurner'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 ahigh school play. She graduated from Miami Edison High Schooland afterwards enrolled at the Coronet Modeling School and Agency. She wonnumerous local beauty pageants including in rapidsuccession Queen of Miami, Florida Orchid Queen, Miss Trailercoach of DadeCounty, Miss Army & Air Force, Miss Personality of Miami Beach, Queen ofthe Sports Carnival and Cheesecake Queen of 1951. Yeager became one of the mostphotographed models in Miami. Photos of Yeager appeared in over 300newspapers and magazines. Yeager also designed and sewed manyof the outfits she and her models wore, at one time boasting that she neverwore the same outfit twice while modeling. She designed and produced hundredsof bikiniswhen the two-piece swimsuit was a new fashion item and is credited with itspopularity 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 savemoney by copying her modeling photographs, enrolling in a night class at avocational school in 1953. Her career as a professional photographer began whena picture of Maria Stinger, taken for her first school assignment, was sold to Eyemagazine for the cover of the March 1954 issue. She became a technicallyskilled photographer noted for, among other things, her early use of the fillflash technique to lighten dark shadows when shooting in bright sun.Yeager was one of the first photographers to photograph her models outdoorswith natural light. Matt Schudel wrote in The Washington Post that her imageswere vivid and dynamic, going on to say, "She favored active poses and adirect gaze at the camera lens, in what could be interpreted alternately asplayful innocence or pure lust." She met BettiePage in 1954, and took most of the photographs of her that year.During their brief collaboration she took over 1, 000 pictures of Page. Alongwith photographer Irving Klaw, Yeager played a role in helping tomake Page famous, particularly with her photos in Playboymagazine. 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 byYeager include the January 1955 Playboy centerfold in which she kneelswearing only a Santa hat while hanging a silver ornament on a Christmas treeand a series of photographs with a pair of live cheetahs. Yeager was a very prolific andsuccessful pinup photographer in the 1950s and 1960s, so much so, that her workwas described as ubiquitous in that era. She continued to work extensively withPlayboy shooting eight centerfolds in addition to covers and pictorialspreads. She discovered Lisa Winters, the first Playmate of the Year.Yeager also appeared in the magazine as a model five times. One appearance withthe headline, "Queen of the Playboy Centerfolds", was photographed byHughHefner. Her work was also published inmainstream magazines including Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Pageant, Redbookand Women's Wear Daily. The famous stillimages she took of Ursula Andress emerging from the water onthe beach in Jamaica for the 1962 James Bond film Dr.No are probably her best known bikiniphotographs. She discovered many notable models. In the 1970s as men'smagazines became more anatomically graphic Yeager largely stopped photographingfor them, saying they were somewhat "smutty" and that, "They hadgirls showing more than they should." In 1998 she stated, "The kindof photographs they wanted was something I wasn't prepared to do." An exhibition titled "BeachBabes Bash" in the early 1990s at the Center for Visual Communication (atthat time located in Coral Gables, Florida) featured photographs by Yeager ofmodels from Miami on the beach from the 1950s. Another exhibit at the samegallery featuring Yeager's work was titled "Sex Sirens of theSixties." In 1992 Playboy published a retrospective of her worktitled "The Bettie Boom". Since 2002, Yeager's work has beenexhibited in contemporary art galleries.In early 2010, The Andy Warhol Museumheld the first major museum exhibition of Yeager's work.[8]The exhibit, "The Legendary Queen of the Pin Up", featured herself-portraits, some from her book How I Photograph Myself published byA.S. Barnes & Co. in 1964. "The Fabulous Bunny Yeager" an exhibitin 2011 at the Harold Golen Gallery in Miami also featuring self-portraits byYeager was of photographs that had not been exhibited previously. Also in 2011Helmut Schuster curated an exhibition for ArtBasel 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 includingBettie Page. In 2012 Bunny Yeager had twoexhibitions in Germany, "Funland" at Gallery Schuster Potsdam and"Femme Fatale" in December 2012 at Gallery Schuster Berlin. The Museum of Art Fort Lauderdaleheld a 2013 exhibit, "Bunny Yeager: Both Sides of the Camera"featuring her photographs of herself, Page, and model Pazde la Huerta. The exhibit also included some of Yeager's first newpictures in twenty years. Yeager had a show at the Sofia Vault in Sofia, Bulgariain October 2013. The Gavlak Gallery in Palm Beach, Florida put on an exhibit, "Bunny Yeager: Selections from How I Photograph Myself" in2014. The Sin City Gallery in LasVegas 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 theCenter for Visual Communication. There is a "Bunny Yeager Lounge" inBerlin which is open to the public and shows photos, memorabilia and movies.Yeager was also founding editor and publisher of a trade magazine forentertainment professionals, Florida Stage & Screen. As of 1998 her24 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 in2000. She had two daughters, Lisa and Cherilu. Yeager died on May 25, 2014 ofcongestive heart failure at age 85 in North Miami, Florida. Yeager's obituary in TheMiami Herald called her "one of the country?s most famousand influential photographers." She has been cited as influencing manyartists and photographers including DianeArbus, Cindy Sherman and YasumasaMorimura. Arbus called her, "the world?s greatest pinupphotographer."[4][13]In The New York Times, MargalitFox wrote, "She is widely credited with helping turn the eroticpinup ? long a murky enterprise in every sense of the word ? into highphotographic art." Her obituary in TheIndependent titled, "Bunny Yeager: Pin-up who moved behindthe camera to take influential, iconic shots of Bettie Page and UrsulaAndress" called her photographic technique pioneering and influential.The Washington Post reported she"helped define [the] art of erotic photography." Yeager is credited with helping topopularize the bikiniin America. The inspiration for the term "cheesecake" in reference toscantily clad women has been attributed to Yeager. Her books, including Photographingthe Female Figure which sold over 300, 000 copies, have influenced severalgenerations of photographers. On July 14, 1957, Yeager appeared onWhat's My Line?, stumping the panel.She was also on I've Got a Secret and ToTell the Truth. She was a guest on The Tonight Show StarringJohnny Carson in 1966 to discuss her book, How I PhotographMyself. In 1968 she played the role of a Swedish masseuse opposite FrankSinatra in Lady In Cement. She had bitparts in over half a dozen films including TonyRome, Midnight Cowboy, Porky's, Dogs of War, Absenceof Malice, Harry& Son and TheMean Season. Yeager also had small roles in a number oftelevision series including MiamiVice and made occasional appearances singing in Miaminightclubs. Yeager was played by SarahPaulson 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, adocumentary with behind-the-scenes footage on Yeager's photo sessions with Pageand other pin-up models. Books· Photographing the Female Figure. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett. 1957. · The Diane Weber Album. Compiled by George Harrison Marks. London:Kamera. 1959. · Bunny Yeager's Photo Studies. Louisville, KY: Whitestone. 1960. · 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. · ABC's of Figure Photography. Louisville, KY: Whitestone. 1964. · 100 Girls: New Concept in Glamour Photography. South Brunswick, NJ:A.S. Barnes. 1965. · ?; Floreani, Tony (1965). Drawing the Human Figure Using Photographs.New York: A.S. Barnes. · Camera in the Caribbean. Louisville, KY: Whitestone. 1965. · Camera in Jamaica. London: Yoseloff. 1966. · Camera in Mexico. Greenwich, CT: Whitestone. 1967. · 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, andGerman). 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. · 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 VonTeese; photographs by Bunny Yeager l year 2012 l Rizzoli(courtesy of Wikipedia)




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