Poolside With Slim Aarons

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Few details are known about the festive photo, one of Slim’s most iconic, but Mary offers some context: “It was a hired house and hired kids, and my mom’s big recollections were that it was a really cold, really dirty pool and that because they wanted everything to line up just right (and obviously it was her husband taking the picture), he made her stay in there a really long time,” says Mary. Zachary wrote in his introduction to the book: “Slim has documented the life of the rich, the privileged, and the leisured for fifty years. Slim wasn’t alive to see the invention of Instagram, and he doesn’t have an estate managing an official account, and yet Instagram has played a significant role in his legacy. 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. In California, he shot his most praised photo, Kings of Hollywood, a 1957 New's Year's Eve photograph depicting Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper, and James Stewart relaxing at a bar in full formal wear.

Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. 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.Working in close partnership with the prestigious Getty Images Archive and Slim Aarons Estate, we offer officially certified prints from this beautiful collection.

After the war, SLIM 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. 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. In the winter of 1954, the attractive person doing the attractive thing in the attractive place was Lorita (or Rita), his new wife, formerly an assistant at Life, swimming beneath the Hollywood sign and a Christmas tree.As a result, he was forever being taken under the wing of the society hostesses, power brokers, and movie stars he photographed. Slim would always feel he was on the outside looking in, though, with his camera, he was productive not defeated, transforming his vantage point into one that the world could marvel at. Bidding the world farewell in a VA hospital—after observing one last Memorial Day—was entirely fitting. Young Slim, evidently not knowing what had become of either parent, had been raised at different times by an aunt in the tristate area, an orphanage, and with his grandmother and cousins in New Hampshire. Though he was a genuine companion to the likes of Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart, his way of life was much more modest.

Aarons died in 2006 in Montrose, New York, and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Neuware -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. She and Slim went to the set of The Seven Year Itch and Marilyn offered to lend her car to the couple. In the documentary it is revealed that Aarons was Jewish and grew up in conditions that were in complete contrast to what he told friends and family of his childhood. Somehow, at some point, Slim had chosen to concoct a more dramatic origin story: the vagabond waif turned bon vivant.

He passed himself off as a loner, a kind of itinerant, dreamy rascal out of Huckleberry Finn or Our Gang who had been raised as an orphan and was estranged from his extended family. Poolside with Slim Aarons" is not so much a Who's Who of society, aristocracy and celebrity - although C. 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. Vogue may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers.

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. He resented and had no relationship with his father and had a brother, Harry, who would later commit suicide. 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. From the Caribbean to Italy and Mexico to Monaco, "Poolside with Slim Aarons" whisks the reader away to an exclusive club where taste, style, luxury and grandeur prevail. The 3,200-square-foot home features five bedrooms, all of which are located on the first floor, with only a covered patio available on the second floor.The man who would go on to make his living recording the high WASP look of the second half of the 20th century turned out to have been Jewish, the son of Yiddish-speaking immigrants who had lived in a tenement on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.