Bunny Yeager's Darkroom

Bettie Page, Africa USA, Safari Park, Boca Raton, Florida, 1954 Courtesy of RizzoliThe pneumatic curves of a smiling pin-up girl are one of the definitive visual legacies of the 1950s, along with the emergence of rock’n’roll and the rise of the Beatniks. Yet behind every photo of a coquettishly smiling blonde, you would generally find a male photographer packing up his case. Not so with Bunny Yeager, the model-turned-camerawoman who crafted her trade by flipping the lens upon herself, as well as c...