Bunny Yeager Contact Sheet Photo Vintage 1958 Cotton Club Black Dancer Pin Up
Item History & Price
ITEM: This is a vintage 1960s original 12 frame contact sheet gelatin silver photograph by Bunny Yeager of the pretty nude black figure model and dancer La Raine Meers. A great example of Bunny's artistry with 12 fresh yet artful frames, showing the gorgeous model posed nude in a bubble bath - this was carefully archived in the photographer's Miami estate for decades!!
Billed as La Raine Schephard until her marriage to Meeres, La Raine (sometimes spelled Laraine or... Loraine) was photographed by Bunny Yeager when living in Florida for the 1957/1958 season of Cab Calloway's revue at the Miami Beach outpost of the Cotton Club. Yeager was one of the first white pin-up photographers to feature black models - in the 1950s she would go to locations like Jamaica, and the still segregated beaches in Miami to find models to use for her commercial photography endeavors.
Measures a complete 8" x 10" on glossy, single-weight paper stock.
Fine condition with light edge storage and handling wear - This item comes directly from the Miami, Florida estate of Bunny Yeager.
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
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Grapefruit Moon Gallery is "over the moon" to be the 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Yeager’s archive includes thousands of never-before-seen and many unpublished camera images of leading glamour and cheesecake models, unique camera negatives & transparencies, photographs, contact sheets, original model costumes, props,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.
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