Bunny Yeager, “Untiled”, 1960s

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“Bunny” Yeager (1929-2014) is a legendary photographer who was based in Miami. She photographed women … for men, as in men who enjoyed Playboy.

She understood popular culture and was sensitive to what an audience would want and pay for. You read about “the male gaze” as seeing women as sexual objects for the pleasure of the heterosexual male viewer. Bunny Yeager set that notion on its ear. As a sexual object, this woman is a goddess and giantess, capable of dominating all if she chooses. This is a titillating portrait of empowerment. That’s tough to pull off.

Yeager did an insightful “how-to-book” called “How I Photograph Myself” (1964) and was responsible for the model, Bettie Page becoming an icon of the sixties.

Here the blonde model is emerging from the sea fully anticipating Ursula Andress rising similarly to meet James Bond in “Dr. No”. She has has the timeless voluptuousness of soaked Anita Ekberg in “La Dolce Vita”.

Look at the man on the beach, on the left, having lost his head by venturing too close, a classic example of how not to make a photograph.

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