Bunny Yeager’s Pin-Up Girls of the 1950s

by Bunny Yeager

Before Bunny Yeager was old enough to be one, she fantasized about becoming a Pin-Up girl. She realized her dream and much more. After building a successful modeling career, she moved behind the camera, in the 1950s, to become one of the most renowned glamour photographers in the world. Her work has appeared in magazines, calendars, posters, and several books. This book is a celebration of all the emancipated young women with beautiful faces and figures who posed for her in the 1950s, just as she embarked on her career as a professional photographer. There are nearly 200 photographs, all reproduced as Bunny took them, including full color and beautiful black and white works. This book will delight aficionados of the Pin-Up, historians of photography, and admirers of the human form.

Genres: Photography

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 31, 2002

Reviews

[David Miller · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bunny Yeager's photographs are obviously more the draw here than her prose, but this book also includes some interesting autobiographical content, as well as a rather rosy take on the history of the sexual revolution in general, and glamor photography in particular. The pictures really are fun and beautiful, and emblematic of a startling moment in the evolution of popular culture. It celebrates that moment, without much thought for how much progress was yet (and has yet) to be made in representations of the sexual liberation of women. But that might be beside the point.

[Marilyn · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ground breaker for women in the 50's but didn't keep me interested

[Mo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dita Von Tease got nothin' on these ladies.