Bettie Page Original 1954 Camera Negative Bunny Yeager Estate Smiling In Bikini

Description

ITEM: You are bidding on an original medium format 2 1/4" 120  film black and white camera negative on Kodak Safety Film of Bettie Page, taken in 1954 by Bunny Yeager. This frame was taken along the secluded shores of The Atlantic Ocean in Miami  - and features the iconic and notorious Ms. Page in a precarious pin-pose that is pure perfection in a bold print bikini that was likely made by the photographer Bunny Yeager herself... This was carefully stored by Bunny Yeager since 1954 and has never been offered on the secondary retail market. This is an important iconic and historic original document and we believe the image to be unpublished - a very rare camera negative that we are thrilled to offer on eBay!
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and groundbreaking celebrations of female beauty.Yeager’s archive includes thousands of never-before-seen and many unpublished camera images of leading glamour and cheesecake models, unique camera negatives & transparencies, photographs, contact sheets, original model costumes, props,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.