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The Robert Collins collection of Bettie Page photographs is available
for purchase. All are vintage!
Please
Contact
BettieMaePage for details.
The Robert Collins photos of Bettie Page have an interesting history. A
few of the images found their way to eBay in the early 2000s as were
sold as modern reprints without any mention of who took the original
photographs. It is possible the seller did not know who the photographer
was and used copy negatives which originally were used for the 1995
publication "Bettie Page Queen of Hearts" by Jim Silke. It's nice to
finally put a name with these mysterious photos. Some of the photographs
were supposedly taken during an outing called the "Manhattan Camera Club
Session". Other than that, I have not been able to gather any
information on Robert Collins. He was a good photographer with a
distinct style. Usually, a photographer gravitates towards one genre but
Robert Collins was adept at doing pin-up, figure and portrait
photography!
The first set of scans represent the Robert Collins collection in their
unadulterated form and were scanned from 8x10" vintage photographs. All
the scans are of very high quality and can be blown up many times in an
image browser.
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