Photographic history Bunny Yeager (Page 2): I know I will catch a load from you about this, BUT. Binny Yeager was a bit of a 'white bread' sort of girly model and photographer. She is...

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

dat2ra wrote:

Bunny Yeager and Irving Klaw were the ones who bro... (show quote)

I know I will catch a load from you about this, BUT.

Binny Yeager was a bit of a 'white bread' sort of girly model and photographer. She is the primary reason most photography of nude females is done by males. As to Irving Klaw, completely incorrect, the BDSM sessions were directed and aranged and over seen by Irving's sister Paula Klaw, we can thank her for removing and retaining her notions of the best of Klaws BDSM saved from the governments demand for the destruction of most of the BDSM and many nude female archive before Irving 'purged' the collection. She knew that nude BDSM/bondage would never work with sensors so she directed sessions to be in underwear and few to no see through out fits.

That part about Bunny having sewn the out fits for Bettie, that is incorrect, Bunny facilitate the notion of Bettie using her skills in sewing to create many of the outfits, but it is even in the published articles that were posted, that Bettie sewed the outfit prior to the session with the cheetahs prior to the photography.

Loads of misinformation does find it's way onto the internet. My source of Bettie Page comes from several people, one is Kimon Nicolaides, the son of the author of the famous book The Natual way to Draw (1941). Father and son having the same name and the father taught the son to draw and paint and draw. The son my friend was a WW II piolet for the D-Day gliders. He was styled in the male type of Ernest Heminway. Kimon (the son) loathed Bettie, whom he knew after the war in New York City. Bettie made a large mistake drawing Kimon's ire, as Kimon was a member of the artist group that had a tradition of inviting young women to nude model for the group where food and liquor was the evenings/nights activities along with the women 'modeling' nude for the artists. They were 'paid' by giving them the drawings, and other works produced during the sessions.

Among the artists were all the best and average young artists of their day. Examples would be J. Johns, De Kooning, Mark Rothko (Kimone worked with Rothko on the Houston paintings that were the Rotko Chapel) Robert Rauschenberg (Erased De Konning piece), the list was quite lengthy. Imagin selling your drawing from one of these sessions to a gallery or to MOMA? Bettie wished fame and fortune but missed that boat.

When Kimon passed away in the San Antonio VA hospital from cancer we had his wake at his studio. My good friend George Stumberg hosted that tribute. It was fun and in the end George 'gifted' his photography studio to me. With that gift came the painting he commissioned and 32 large canvases that he 'inherited' from Kimon's estate. Imagin, the idiot family couldn't be bothered to have an original Kimone canvas (too big, where to put it? of a nude woman!). Me, I am gifting my studio (yes, all my images and Kimone's paintings along with the property and its content to my favorite collaborator VADA. That will include all the old Leica gear and the entire English additions of Leica Photography magazine (with a few extra English, German and French editions). Oh and the cameras, see the photo, but that is not the one she will get, the one shown is then 8.5cm from before WW II that only the German Military were allowed by crazy Hitler! The silver lens hood, but also the rare matt black combat lens hood worth about $1,000 to collectors! The estate should be well worth her managing this jewel.

Portrait of artist Tim Summa by Arnold Newman, prints and negative.

Post WW II 8.5cm Leica lens, not the original WW II 8.5cm Summarex.

Post WW II 8.5cm Leica lens, not the original WW II 8.5cm Summarex, cross section view.

Portrait of VADA (yes, a natural carrot top).

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VADA doing her version of the Bettie Page Christmas image.

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VADA with Mr. Bubbles several Easters ago, Bubble will be well cared for because Bubble and VADA are great buddies!

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Stephan G

Timmers wrote:

I know I will catch a load from you about this, BUT.

Binny Yeager was a bit of a 'white bread' sort of girly model and photographer. She is the primary reason most photography of nude females is done by males. As to Irving Klaw, completely incorrect, the BDSM sessions were directed and aranged and over seen by Irving's sister Paula Klaw, we can thank her for removing and retaining her notions of the best of Klaws BDSM saved from the governments demand for the destruction of most of the BDSM and many nude female archive before Irving 'purged' the collection. She knew that nude BDSM/bondage would never work with sensors so she directed sessions to be in underwear and few to no see through out fits.

That part about Bunny having sewn the out fits for Bettie, that is incorrect, Bunny facilitate the notion of Bettie using her skills in sewing to create many of the outfits, but it is even in the published articles that were posted, that Bettie sewed the outfit prior to the session with the cheetahs prior to the photography.

Loads of misinformation does find it's way onto the internet. My source of Bettie Page comes from several people, one is Kimon Nicolaides, the son of the author of the famous book The Natual way to Draw (1941). Father and son having the same name and the father taught the son to draw and paint and draw. The son my friend was a WW II piolet for the D-Day gliders. He was styled in the male type of Ernest Heminway. Kimon (the son) loathed Bettie, whom he knew after the war in New York City. Bettie made a large mistake drawing Kimon's ire, as Kimon was a member of the artist group that had a tradition of inviting young women to nude model for the group where food and liquor was the evenings/nights activities along with the women 'modeling' nude for the artists. They were 'paid' by giving them the drawings, and other works produced during the sessions.

Among the artists were all the best and average young artists of their day. Examples would be J. Johns, De Kooning, Mark Rothko (Kimone worked with Rothko on the Houston paintings that were the Rotko Chapel) Robert Rauschenberg (Erased De Konning piece), the list was quite lengthy. Imagin selling your drawing from one of these sessions to a gallery or to MOMA? Bettie wished fame and fortune but missed that boat.

When Kimon passed away in the San Antonio VA hospital from cancer we had his wake at his studio. My good friend George Stumberg hosted that tribute. It was fun and in the end George 'gifted' his photography studio to me. With that gift came the painting he commissioned and 32 large canvases that he 'inherited' from Kimon's estate. Imagin, the idiot family couldn't be bothered to have an original Kimone canvas (too big, where to put it? of a nude woman!). Me, I am gifting my studio (yes, all my images and Kimone's paintings along with the property and its content to my favorite collaborator VADA. That will include all the old Leica gear and the entire English additions of Leica Photography magazine (with a few extra English, German and French editions). Oh and the cameras, see the photo, but that is not the one she will get, the one shown is then 8.5cm from before WW II that only the German Military were allowed by crazy Hitler! The silver lens hood, but also the rare matt black combat lens hood worth about $1,000 to collectors! The estate should be well worth her managing this jewel.

I know I will catch a load from you about this, BU... (show quote)

Thanks for the behind the scenes comments.

I recall the reports of Bettie becoming more involved in religion which caused her to separate herself from the outside. One of the comments made in one report was that Bettie was "convinced" that naked bodies were evil by one of the religionists close to her.

Again, thanks.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

Stephan G wrote:

Thanks for the behind the scenes comments.

I recall the reports of Bettie becoming more involved in religion which caused her to separate herself from the outside. One of the comments made in one report was that Bettie was "convinced" that naked bodies were evil by one of the religionists close to her.

Again, thanks.

All I can say is that people do change during one's life. With me, it was at an early age, about 12 years old. Prior to that I was in the Boy Scouts of America, and I studied for the catholic boy scout religious awards, Ad Altara Dei; I was the youngest to receive that award, later I rejected the 'call' and left that religious belief.

Hopefully people grow in the depth of their beliefs.

DanielB Loc: San Diego, Ca

DIRTY HARRY wrote:

Photographer Bunny Yeager - Model Lori Shea 1954

A great photojournalistic shot. Really like the capture and it's an interesting note it was 4-5 years before I was born.

dat2ra Loc: Sacramento

Ok, Timmers;
Sorry I was not sufficiently specific: Irving Klaw was the PHOTOGRAPHER.... I thought that's what we were discussing. Silly me. As for the other three paragraphs, I have no idea.
(Is this "catching a load"?)