Bunny Yeager, once heralded as the world's prettiest photographer, had a huge influence in 20th-century pop culture thou | dG1fSXd5ODNpNVhEeDg
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00:00How many beautiful girls do you know who could have been a major model, movie star?
00:12How many do you know would be a photographer of pinup girls?
00:17The work that she did paved the way for me to be able to do what I do now.
00:21She taught people how to take the first selfies.
00:24I said, oh, I want to meet this lady who's taking pictures that looks like this.
00:29Bunny had a style of her own.
00:32Not only was she the first female photographer to shoot for Playboy, she was one of the first
00:38photographers to shoot for Playboy at all.
00:41She went and she photographed Eddie Page with the Christmas tree and the Christmas hat,
00:45and they both became famous.
00:51The closest relationship that Hefner had to a photographer was with Bunny Yeager.
00:56A flood tide of filth is engulfing our country in the form of newsstand obscenity.
01:04You're really looking at a choice that women were making to get involved with pinup photography
01:09at the time.
01:10I was supporting my mother and myself and had a household to take care of.
01:15I'm married and I have two children, and I can make my own hours and still indulge in
01:19having a career.
01:21She was fearless.
01:22She was a boundary pusher, and she was an easy target.
01:34Bunny was the most famous female photographer in America.