{"product_id":"plc-s1-10-the-big-bunny-hop","title":"The Big Bunny Hop","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"fpa-product-description\"\u003e\n  \u003ch1\u003eThe Big Bunny Hop\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n  \u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003ePhotographed by Pompeo Posar, featuring Hugh Hefner and the Playboy Club Bunnies. Published June 1965.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp class=\"lead\"\u003ePublished in Playboy in June 1965, The Big Bunny Hop is a piece of pure jet-age history: a young, confident Hugh Hefner escorting ten Bunnies across an airport tarmac, photographed by Pompeo Posar as the lead image for the article that gave the picture its name. It is less a glamour shot than a document of the Playboy Club empire in its rapid ascent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003eHefner had opened the first Playboy Club in Chicago in 1960, and within a year more than fifty thousand keyholders had joined. By 1963, clubs had opened across the country, and the brand would eventually stretch from London to Osaka, drawing more than a million members to its corseted, rabbit-eared world. This image came out of a 1965 cross-country junket to inaugurate the new Los Angeles club and the Club and Hotel in Jamaica, a three-day celebration that ended with the entourage boarding a chartered flight to the Caribbean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003eNewsweek captured what the clubs had become in a single phrase:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cblockquote class=\"pullquote\"\u003eA Disneyland for adults.\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003eIn The Big Bunny Hop, Hefner walks center frame in a dark suit and tie, flanked by ten Bunnies in satin costumes of black, blue, gold, and white, ears upright, each advancing in heels across the tarmac. Behind them sits a propeller airliner under a bright, cloud-scattered sky, the red carpet underfoot. The whole image radiates a particular mid-1960s optimism: glamorous, confident, mobile, and entirely of its moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003ePhotographed by Posar and preserved within the Playboy Legacy Collection, the work is part of the forty-eight-print archival edition released for Playboy's 50th anniversary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003ch3\u003eCollection Note\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003eThe Playboy Legacy Collection was released in 2007 for the magazine's 50th anniversary as a forty-eight-print archival edition curated under the direction of Hugh Hefner. Each print is embossed with the archive seal bearing the Playboy Bunny mark and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp class=\"meta\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/pages\/playboy-legacy-collection\"\u003eRead the full history of the Playboy Legacy Collection\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Playboy Legacy Collection","offers":[{"title":"16 × 20 in - $450","offer_id":47674885964001,"sku":"PL-LC-S1-10-16","price":450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"20 × 24 in - $625","offer_id":47674885996769,"sku":"PL-LC-S1-10-24","price":625.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"30 × 40 in - $850","offer_id":48400080371937,"sku":null,"price":850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"40 × 50 in - $1150","offer_id":48400080404705,"sku":null,"price":1150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0661\/2765\/9233\/files\/PLCS1-10_THE_BIG_BUNNY_HOP_finephotoart.png?v=1779517884","url":"https:\/\/www.finephoto.art\/products\/plc-s1-10-the-big-bunny-hop","provider":"FinePhoto.Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}