Wet-Collodion Glass Plates and Albumen Prints We do have a small number of daguerreotypes (direct positive process on silver plated copper), tintypes (direct positive process on a thin sheet of lacquered iron), and ambrotypes (underexposed glass plate placed against a dark background), but they are not as frequent as the other processes. For this post, I’ll be concentrating on the most prevalent processes and formats in our holdings. Photographic prints can be found in different print formats such as stereographs, cartes-de-visite and cabinet cards. Most prominent of these are our 19 th and early 20 th century holdings where you will find almost every early photographic process, including daguerreotypes, tintypes, ambrotypes, wet-collodion glass plates, gelatin dry plates, albumen prints, gelatin silver printing out prints, collodion silver printing out prints, matte collodion prints, platinum/palladium prints and cyanotypes. In the Still Picture Branch, we have a wide range of photographic formats and processes that provide unique preservation challenges, including proper storage, proper handling and reproduction strategies. Not only do staff strive to become experts on the subject matter covered within our holdings, but also the physical format and the processes that made them. Yeager’s books in the 1960s such as How to Photograph Nudes and How I Photograph Myself influenced such artist-photographers as Diane Arbus and Cindy Sherman.Working within the Special Media Division presents many challenges. ![]() Given that fashion photographers were men and models were women only adds to the transgressive tone of this image and of Bunny’s extensive oeuvre of photographs. Her toes pull the camera’s matching cherry red selfie-cord, revealing the subversive nature of the model and artist all at once. Her exquisite left leg points in a pose that is so intentional it is practically contortionist. One piece, which perfectly captures the artist in her practice, is the photograph of blonde bombshell Bunny with a lipstick red tripod, red shoes, and red sweater. Soon after, Yeager began to write “How To Photograph” books, such as her 1957 How to Photograph the Female Figure, publishing thirty books in total.Īnd as for the image at the top of this story: This lead to the famous January 1955 Playboy Magazine centerfold of Page wearing nothing but a Santa hat, launching Yeager’s career as a nationally recognized photographer. It was then, in 1954, that she was asked by actress Bettie Page to photograph her. Yeager moved to Miami at 17 where she completed high school and studied photography at The Lindsay-Hopkins Technical College. ![]() Was Weegee, lead lens withe the Bettie Page Camera Club, valued for his perceived attractiveness? Whatever the mores, Yeager had fun disturbing them.īunny Yeager, self-portrait, Florida, 1950s Do the snapper’s looks matter? The assumption was that only men could take photographs. Camera in 1954 was captioned “The World’s Prettiest Photographer”. Yeager’s spirited women were not simply an opening into someone’s fantasy.Īnd she too was a model. Often she stayed in the picture, her presence asserting command over the scene and offering sororal guidance to her “girls”. ![]() Yeager was the woman photographer in a man’s world. Her pin-ups – notably of the hymned Bettie Page who Bunny ‘discovered’ in 1954 when Irving Klaw’s fetish model who’d illustrated the guide to striptease was looking for new angles and a way in to Hugh Hefner’s Playboy – hark back to an era when less was more and gender roles were binary and starched hard. Was Bunny Yeager the original bunny girl? Born Eleanor Linnea Yeager in Pittsburgh, PA in 1929, Bunny died in 2014 in Miami, Florida. I made my own and am beginning to think I invented the bikini, after the French did it.” ![]() All the other models were wearing one-piece Jantzen and Catalina suits. I did not pose for men individually like Bettie Page did.
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