She became known at one point in her career as "The World's Prettiest Photographer." But the accomplishments of Bunny Yeager — the Miami Beach artist, model, feminist pioneer and icon — can't be summed up with one simple, reductive label. Her snaps — as well as the photos in which she appeared — combined a virginal view of domestic goddesses who were also wellsprings of teenage rebellion.
They also accomplished everything from popularizing bikinis to creating the idea of the modern-day selfie. Among her models was the notorious Bettie Page , the S⁘M photo star who met Yeager during a visit to Miami Beach and became one of her most popular subjects, including a "Playmate of the Month" stint in 1955 in Playboy magazine (Yeager snapped that picture as well). "There's something inherently female about the way she sees her models," says Hollywood actress and screenwriter Guinevere Turner about Yeager in the film, which opens Friday, Sept. 26, at Cinema Paradiso Hollywood, O Cinema Miami Beach and Coral Gables Art Cinema.
"Naked Ambition" is the second collaboration between Scholl, the former president/CEO of Oolite Arts, and Tabsch, co-founder of the art film haven O Cinema, who are both established filmmakers.
The duo previously co-directed the 2018 documentary "The Last Resort," a tribute to the work of photographers Andy Sweet and Gary Monroe, which doubled as an eloquent history of Miami Beach and its 1970s heyday as a haven for fun-loving retirees from around the nation.
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