Bettie Page Camera Negative Bunny Yeager Estate Lost Image Crandon Park Miami
Item History & Price
ITEM: You are bidding on just a fabulous 120 film black and white camera negative on Kodak Safety Film of Bettie Page from a 1954 photo shoot taken at the somewhat secluded Crandon Park Beach in Miami by Bunny Yeager. This is really a stellar example of Yeager's work, pictured is the notorious Bettie Page, in a beaming unpublished bikini pin-up pose - this was created to replace the estate lost original camera negative.This is a later date internegative taken from a vintage print or co...ntact sheet for the purposes of making a new proof negative, as the original was lost or taken from the estate at some point in time. ** Please note we are not offering copyright transfer on this auction as this is a later date internegative ** This was carefully stored by Bunny Yeager and has never been offered on the secondary retail market, and is an unpublished image! It was housed with other internegatives in a storage sheet notated by Bunny Yeager which is shown below but not included in the auction!!
Measures approx. 2 1/4" square.
PLEASE NOTE: The auction is for the Kodak Safety Film black and white camera negative which we converted to a positive view in the scans here. The watermark does not appear on the actual negative.
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For this listing only, Grapefruit Moon Gallery represents that the original camera negative/transparency ("Original") comes with United States copyright. The buyer is solely responsible for ascertaining that the Original is otherwise cleared for publication including but not limited to satisfying any publicity right that persons appearing in an image may have under any statutes or common law. Grapefruit Moon Gallery makes no representation or warranty as to any matters that need to be cleared prior to publication. No representation or warranty is made regarding copyright outside of the United States. All publication issues should be referred to the buyer's own professional advisors.
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Grapefruit Moon Gallery is the proud home of the extensive, detailed, and comprehensive estate of photographer and pin-up model Bunny Yeager. Described as "the world’s greatest pin-up photographer" by Diane Arbus, and best-remembered for her iconic collaborations with Bettie Page, Yeager’s body of work includes over five decades of spectacular, and groundbreaking celebrations of female beauty.Yeager’s archive includes thousands of never-before-seen and many unpublished camera images of leading glamour and cheesecake models, unique camera negatives & transparencies, photographs, contact sheets, original model costumes, props, cameras, model release forms, technical notes, as well as displays and exhibition mounted large photographs from her Miami showroom. Yeager’s work is both groundbreaking and technically brilliant; one of the only female photographers working in the pin-up and nude genres, she captured the female body with a beauty, strength, power, and emotionality unparalleled by the leering lens of many of her male contemporaries.
Keep a close eye on our listings for one-of-a-kind treasures from the estate of Bunny Yeager.
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Measures approx. 2 1/4" square.
PLEASE NOTE: The auction is for the Kodak Safety Film black and white camera negative which we converted to a positive view in the scans here. The watermark does not appear on the actual negative.
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For this listing only, Grapefruit Moon Gallery represents that the original camera negative/transparency ("Original") comes with United States copyright. The buyer is solely responsible for ascertaining that the Original is otherwise cleared for publication including but not limited to satisfying any publicity right that persons appearing in an image may have under any statutes or common law. Grapefruit Moon Gallery makes no representation or warranty as to any matters that need to be cleared prior to publication. No representation or warranty is made regarding copyright outside of the United States. All publication issues should be referred to the buyer's own professional advisors.
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Grapefruit Moon Gallery is the proud home of the extensive, detailed, and comprehensive estate of photographer and pin-up model Bunny Yeager. Described as "the world’s greatest pin-up photographer" by Diane Arbus, and best-remembered for her iconic collaborations with Bettie Page, Yeager’s body of work includes over five decades of spectacular, and groundbreaking celebrations of female beauty.Yeager’s archive includes thousands of never-before-seen and many unpublished camera images of leading glamour and cheesecake models, unique camera negatives & transparencies, photographs, contact sheets, original model costumes, props, cameras, model release forms, technical notes, as well as displays and exhibition mounted large photographs from her Miami showroom. Yeager’s work is both groundbreaking and technically brilliant; one of the only female photographers working in the pin-up and nude genres, she captured the female body with a beauty, strength, power, and emotionality unparalleled by the leering lens of many of her male contemporaries.
Keep a close eye on our listings for one-of-a-kind treasures from the estate of Bunny Yeager.
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