A Poolside Story
Slim Aarons · 1970
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About this work
A Poolside Story, Palm Springs January 1970
Nine shots, in three rows of three, of the same swimming pool beneath the same mountains. The setting stays the same: the long blue pool, the white loungers, the low house with flat roofs. Only the people shift. In the first frames two figures stand by the water, then two women sit on the loungers, one in white and one in yellow, and a third walks toward them.
The sequence shows the desert house that Richard Neutra designed for Edgar J. Kaufmann, in Palm Springs, January 1970. Lita Baron came walking up, while in the foreground Nelda Linsk, wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, was talking to her friend Helen Dzo Dzo. As a sequence the work shows what a single frame hides: the minutes around it. The light on the mountains barely changes; the figures shift until they have found their places.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- USA
- City
- Palm Springs
- Year
- 1970
- Reference
- 1188854202
The photographer
Photographing attractive people who were doing attractive things in attractive places.
George Allen Aarons, born in New York, served as a military photographer in World War II and subsequently transitioned to print journalism. Whereas he previously documented the war, he deliberately chose the opposite subject: the leisure time of the rich and famous, in breathtaking settings.
His most famous photograph, The Kings of Hollywood (1957), encapsulates what he sought in all his portraits: glamour, charisma, and celebrity, captured in a relaxed manner.
Aarons won the trust of the people he photographed, thereby gaining access to some of the most intimate and candid portraits of the twentieth century. In 2007, Getty Images published the book Poolside With Slim Aarons , crowning his legacy.
- Born October 29, 1916 , New York
- Died May 29, 2006 , Montrose, NY
- Hulton Archive / Getty Images
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