Bettie Page is sometimes referred to as “the Queen of Pinups”. Working professionally from 1950 to 1957, Bettie became a sexual icon across the United States. Much of her early career had begun in New York, but it was meeting Bunny Yeager in Miami that lead to one of her most famous and celebrated series of photographs in 1954: “Jungle Bettie”. This series featured Page in a leopard-skin Bikini created by the model herself in a variety of tropical and exotic appearing locations. These photographs were immensely popular and inspired many later depictions of women in primitive or ‘jungle’ clothing. Artistic renditions of “Amazonian” women, in this case meaning strong and primitive warriors fending off beasts in the wild, can trace much of their inspiration to Page and Yeager’s work. Page was also known for her involvement in various photographs and short films depicting bondage and other BDSM related acts earlier in her career. These various series and their popularity gave Page massive recognition, much of it centering around and encouraging the idea of what was the taboo of a raw, primal female sexuality not to be discussed in society. Even before her centerfold appearance in Playboy, Page was found in numerous other magazines and photo collections that continued to spread her image as a modeling icon.