Bunny Yeager is the most beautiful photographer in the world

A model and a photographer are too different professions to be successfully combined. But some people did it perfectly. Bunny Yeager was the winner of several beauty contests and recognized as the queen of pinup. But it seemed to her that this was not enough and the model also took up professional photography, having achieved even greater success in this difficult matter. (Careful! Nude).

Diana Arbus— one of the most authoritative photographers of the 20th century, called Bunny Yeager "the greatest photographer in the world." In 1953, the US Camera edition supplemented this title with the title of "the most beautiful photographer in the world". It's hard to argue with these two statements — Yeager is really an excellent photographer and a real American beauty.

Linnea Eleanor Yeager was born in 1929 in the provincial American town of Wilkinsburg in Pennsylvania. Since childhood, she dreamed of fame, so at the age of 17 she left home and moved to Miami.  There she took the name Bunny, in honor of the heroine of the movie "Weekend at the Waldorf Hotel" and went to auditions.

External data and natural charm quickly led Yeager to success. She became the most popular model in Florida and one of the best pinup models in the USA. Beauties won beauty contests one after another, which contributed to her popularity as a model.

When Bunny Yeager started taking photography courses, many of her acquaintances were surprised. The girl has always been on the other side of the lens and has never shown interest in the technical part of art. But everything was explained simply — Bunny, who grew up in a poor family, wanted to save a little on replicating her pictures. The model wanted to make self-portraits herself, but she got so carried away that photographing became her life's work.

Yeager lived in a wonderful time when women were just beginning to realize their independence. This was reflected in Bunny's photographs, which became revolutionary for their time. She destroyed the canons as best she could. Yeager took models out of studios to the streets, experimented with light, filmed girls in motion.

The photographer often created the scenery and costumes herself, which delighted contemporaries. In 1954, Yeager began collaborating with model Betty Page.

It turned out to be an incredibly productive union, which brought a lot to both Bunny and Betty. Paige became an iconic pinup model, and Yeager got incredible shots. It was a time of the most daring experiments.

Bunny Yeager's works in the 50s and 60s were published in more than 300 magazines. Later, the photographer began publishing books of her best works. Among the 30 publications, the most famous were "The Art of glamorous Photography Bunny Yeager" (1962), "How I Photograph Myself" (1964), "Girls in Bikinis of the 1960s" (2002), "Beautiful Ass Bunny Yeager" (2012).

Yeager is known for her integrity. In the 70s, when men's magazines began to demand more explicit pictures, she simply stopped working with them. She worked until a very old age and became a mentor to many modern masters of photography. Bunny Yeager died on May 25, 2014 at her home in Florida.