Antonio Ruiz Soler
Slim Aarons · 1957
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About this work
Antonio Ruiz Soler, 1957
In front of a whitewashed brick wall a flamenco dancer raises his hat, his other hand on his hip. He wears a short ochre jacket with black trim, a lace jabot and high-waisted trousers. Beside him on the left hangs a large poster: a man in a black hat stares straight ahead, with ANTONIO in red letters and Ballet Español beneath.
In 1957 Slim Aarons photographed a flamenco dancer raising his hat to a poster of the virtuoso dancer Antonio, in full Antonio Ruiz Soler, with the words Ballet Español below. The two hats make the picture: the painted one large and motionless, the real one small and caught mid-gesture. The living dancer seems to greet the poster, or to challenge it.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- Spain
- Year
- 1957
- Reference
- 3436605
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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