First Look: Bunny Yeagers Darkroom, a Book on the Photographer Who Put Bettie Page on the Map [NSFW]

Before Ms. magazine and second-wave feminism, there was Bunny Yeager. The model turned photographer starting out taking self-portraits, dyeing her hair and completely changing her look for each shoot like an early Cindy Sherman. But she's best known as the person who put Bettie Page on the map. "Bettie was very much an underground model until Bunny Yeager took pictures of her in Miami in 1954, the year after Playboy magazine launched," author Petra Mason told The Cut. Mason's new book, Bunny Yeager's Darkroom (published by Rizzoli and out September 11), takes a look at Yeager's dynamic work during pinup photography's golden, male-dominated era. A year later, Yeager ended up contacting Playboy and selling them images of Page wearing nothing but a Santa cap. She continued to work for the publication regularly from then on.

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