Poolside With Slim Aarons

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Like its predecessors, 'Once Upon a Time' and 'A Place in the Sun,' this collection offers images of jetsetters and the wealthy, beautiful people living the glamorous life. Thereafter, he insisted—in a phrase that became his leitmotif—he’d allow himself to photograph only “attractive people who were doing attractive things in attractive places. The main character is pools and everything that goes with them - magnificent, suntanned bodies, well-oiled skin, bikini-clad women, yachts, summer cocktails, sumptuous buffets, spectacular locations and most of all fun. I’m not that old,” Mary jokingly asserts when asked about people thinking she was one of the kids in the picture.

Charlie Aarons), had largely distanced himself from the family; his mother, Stella Karvetzky, had been dispatched to a sanitarium. This is the quintessential Slim Aarons Classic , now widely recognised as a modern masterpiece of Photography. Slim’s portraits gave readers not only a glimpse inside the cloistered bastions of the cultivated but also provided a template for a lifestyle to which magazine readers could aspire. Like its predecessors, Once Upon a Time and A Place in the Sun , Poolside with Slim Aarons offers images of jet-setters and the wealthy, of beautiful, glittering people living the glamorous life. Not because Slim painted a partly fictional picture of his youth, but because of the loneliness it must have instilled in him.Z. Guest, Lilly Pulitzer, Cheryl Tiegs, Peter Beard, and many who have appeared in the previous books are here—as it is about leisure time and how the rich make use of it. If you look at a beach scene or a pool scene, and there’s somebody in a red bathing suit who has their back to you, that’s probably her—there to add color.

There’s no denying his most iconic photos are of attractive people, doing attractive things, in attractive places – but I think for fans of his work today, there’s such a fascination with this period of distinct class, carefree love and expenditure that drives so much interest. As a result, he was forever being taken under the wing of the society hostesses, power brokers, and movie stars he photographed. Lita Baron approaches on the right Nelda Linsk, wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk who is talking to a friend, Helen Dzo Dzo.While you’re at it, also check out Lenny Kravitz’s Beverly Hills mansion which took inspiration from the book and the photographer’s portfolio of photos. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. He began taking pictures at the age of eighteen, after enlisting in the US Army, where he served as an official combat photographer during WWII. Slim photographed swank après-ski scenes in Squaw Valley and the photogenic patrons at Il Pellicano, but more than that, he was granted rarified access into private spaces of those whose fame was their fortune or for whom entitlement was a birthright—C. At 18 years old, Aarons enlisted in the United States Army, worked as a photographer at the United States Military Academy, and later served as a combat photographer in World War II and earned a Purple Heart.

Not knowing what had become of his parents, Aarons spent his boyhood at varying times with an aunt, at an orphanage, and with his grandmother and cousins in New Hampshire.Those holiday playgrounds where the old-monied set clinked Champagne glasses with oligarchs of modern industry and pretty young things with Hollywood stars in their eyes. In the foreground, two women are locked in conversation by a sparkling turquoise swimming pool, cocktails in hand, overlooking a few leggy friends and the idyllic purple mountains of Palm Springs. Somehow, at some point, Slim had chosen to concoct a more dramatic origin story: the vagabond waif turned bon vivant.

Rita served as muse several times for her husband, and when she wasn’t the subject of the photo, she helped add to the just-so-happened-glamour of Slim’s mise-en-scènes. GALERIE PRINTS is delighted to present The Slim Aarons Collection Over 900 of his exquisite images now available to have as beautiful Open Edition or Limited Edition Estate Stamped Collectors prints. An oft-cited example of this approach is his 1970 Poolside Gossip [4] shot at the Kaufmann Desert House designed by Richard Neutra, with owner Nelda Linsk as one of the models in the photo.Poolside with Slim Aarons" is not so much a Who's Who of society, aristocracy and celebrity - although C. Decades later, those same images from another era, through their buoyant mood and almost fetishistic attention to detail, have continued to hold sway over today’s influencers in the worlds of fashion, design, and advertising—a group of tastemakers who simply can’t get enough of Aarons’s idealized depictions of the good life. Unlike limited edition prints, there is no set number of artworks produced, meaning the artist has the ability to produce as many impressions of that one print as they would like. He didn’t use lights, and I would guess—I’m not great at perspectives but I’m looking at it now because I put it out every Christmas—he’s standing on the diving board or a ladder at the other end of the pool. Slim, she said—later providing documents and photographs—was not who he professed to be: a free spirit estranged from his parents.