Influential pinup photographer Bunny Yeager, who helped transform the previously hush-hush enterprise into an art form, passed away last month. Previously a model herself, Yeager’s images broke through her subjects’ obvious physical beauty and shone a spotlight on their personalities and inner world. Most famous for shooting over 1,000 images of pinup queen Bettie Page in the 1950s, and the iconic photo of bikini-clad Bond Girl Ursula Andress emerging from the water in 1962’s Dr. No, Yeager is currently the subject of a Las Vegas exhibition on view until July 20. Bunny’s Bombshells at Sin City Gallery chronicles Yeager’s rise to fine art photographer in a male-dominated world. “Almost all of the girls I asked easily agreed to pose for me, because they knew I wasn’t going to flirt with them like the men photographers did,” she once recalled. Browse a preview of the exhibition in our gallery. Visit Sin City’s website for more information.
Photo credit: Bunny Yeager, Courtesy of Sin City Gallery
Photo credit: Bunny Yeager, Courtesy of Sin City Gallery
Photo credit: Bunny Yeager, Courtesy of Sin City Gallery
Photo credit: Bunny Yeager, Courtesy of Sin City Gallery
Photo credit: Bunny Yeager, Courtesy of Sin City Gallery
Photo credit: Bunny Yeager, Courtesy of Sin City Gallery
Photo credit: Bunny Yeager, Courtesy of Sin City Gallery
Photo credit: Bunny Yeager, Courtesy of Sin City Gallery
Photo credit: Bunny Yeager, Courtesy of Sin City Gallery
Photo credit: Bunny Yeager, Courtesy of Sin City Gallery
Photo credit: Bunny Yeager, Courtesy of Sin City Gallery
Photo credit: Bunny Yeager, Courtesy of Sin City Gallery
Photo credit: Bunny Yeager, Courtesy of Sin City Gallery
Photo credit: Bunny Yeager, Courtesy of Sin City Gallery