Aerial Miami Beach
Slim Aarons · 1972
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About this work
Aerial Miami Beach, April 1972
From the air the coast stretches to the horizon: a row of white hotel blocks between a wide road and the beach, on the right turquoise water shading into deep blue. On the left lies an inland waterway with marinas and low residential districts. Between the towers are parking lots and small blue swimming pools.
An aerial view of the hotels along the coast of Miami Beach, Florida, taken by Slim Aarons in April 1972. In this horizontal version the land on the left takes up more space than the sea on the right. The hotels stand exactly on the border between the two, like a wall of concrete on a narrow strip of sand, and the road pulls the eye along to the vanishing point.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- USA
- City
- Miami
- Year
- 1972
- Reference
- 56419574
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
