Aerial Miami Beach
Slim Aarons · 1972
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About this work
Aerial Miami Beach, April 1972
A dead-straight road lined with palms runs from the bottom of the frame to the towers on the horizon. To the right of it lie white villas with swimming pools and gardens all the way to the beach, where the surf foams. On the left there is still bare land with a few scattered buildings. Farther on, the houses turn into tall apartment blocks.
Slim Aarons took this aerial view of the hotels along the coast of Miami Beach, Florida, in April 1972. The vertical crop reads like a timeline from bottom to top: first open ground and low villas with their own pools, then the row of hotel blocks that takes over the view of the sea. What is still empty in the foreground is already full on the horizon.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- USA
- City
- Miami
- Year
- 1972
- Reference
- 56419568
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
