Bill Courtney

Bettie Page Picture Gallery

Friday, 13. April 2007, 15:58:32

Damsels Vixens and Femme Fatales, Pin-up Girls

A selection of really nice pictures of saultry Tennessee girl Bettie Page (or sometimes Betty Page if you are searching the net). There were really two types of photos from Bettie and one was the cheese cake style that Bunny Yeager did and the other was the “dark” stuff by Irving Klaw that got her into a bit of trouble later on. Some fans are divided on which represented the “true” Bettie while I have always felt both did. I have to admit that I like the dark, bondage stuff with Bettie while I cannot say I usually prefer this style from that period due to the quality. Or maybe I do prefer it but worry what people might say about me behind my back. But some of the dark style images with her were simply great photographs and Bettie’s radiant personality comes out in all of them. Klaw was essentially a "noir" phogograher of sorts but could take good pictures. The bottom two pictures with the stuffed leopard are from Yeager I believe while the others are from her infamous New York City work. She is simply too sexy for words and it is easy to see why she was 2nd only to Marilyn Monroe in the 1950’s as the most photographed model the US. Below is a link to her really excellent looking and easy to navigate webpage. It has improved vastly since the last time I checked it out.

http://www.bettiepage.com/

Also included are links to pages for Irving Klaw and Bunny Yeager to show the diversity of their work and how they both saw Bettie from different angles that helped create her angel-devil mystique.

http://irvingklaw.com/

http://www.bunnyyeager.com

Assorted Jungle Girls Including Four by Dave Stevens Two MP3 Selections from Dirty Little Secrets by The Thrill Kill Kult

Comments

Anonymous # 13. April 2007, 21:15

Paul writes:

I like that really clear floral design on the second picture down after the title picture.

Bill Courtney # 14. April 2007, 05:00

Yea that one is cool. I had to edit the pic a little to bring it out. It was all washed out... flat tones. I made the title banner in Image Ready. I am getting better in it. Learning to monkey with the layers and save them and redo them later. I have about a dozen or so things I can do quickly now over and over with minimum mistakes so I can add to that soon I hope. I still have some notes I made one day when you showed me some PS tricks...remember, with the cowgirl pic... but I am not really near that area in my needs yet.

I redid an old post on page three or so called Girls with Guns (used to be Asian Girls with Guns) and did the title up... you may like those pics there.