In 1954, during her annual vacation to Miami, Florida, Bettie Page met photographer Bunny Yeager. At that time, Page was the top pin-up model in New York. Yeager, a former model herself and aspiring photographer, signed Page for a photo session at the wildlife park ‘Africa USA’ in Boca Raton, Florida. The Jungle Bettie photographs from this shoot are among her most celebrated and include nude shots with a pair of cheetahs named Mojah and Mbili. The leopard skin patterned Jungle Girl outfit she wore was made, along with much of her lingerie, by Bettie Page herself.
Album Eldorado Covers With Some Familiar Faces
Another nice little find of a magazine called Album Eldorado, which was a digest size magazine (6.7 x 9.6 inch) published in Denmark by Forlaget Studia Publications in the late 1950’s and 60’s.
The magazine consisted of 36 pages including covers, with a colour cover and the interior pages were illustrated throughout with black and white nude photographs. Another magazine that claimed it was a naturist magazine with full-page photographs of beautiful women in outdoor poses, basking in the sun and amidst nature. There was also an introduction page with brief text in Danish, English, and German.
I don’t recognise some of the models, but by issue No.30 onwards they start to get very familiar :)
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No.28 – Unknown |
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No.36 – Wendy Luton |
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Other Vintage Magazines
Other Vintage Magazines from the 1950’s and 1960’s that were published by Harrison Marks or his companies, or feature one or more of my favourite models. You will also find several Russell Gay publications as well.
Links take you directly to the images from that magazine or if more than one a thumbnail listing of the magazines in that series … Enjoy!
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