Arts Festival
Slim Aarons · 1964
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About this work
Arts Festival, Palm Beach 1964
From a high vantage point you look over a formal garden full of people in summer dresses and suits. A narrow watercourse with little steps runs through the middle to a stone gate, flanked by red and white flower beds and round shrubs. Two maypoles with ribbons stand on either side. In the foreground lies a pond with water lilies under a stone arch.
The procession of the Palm Beach Arts Festival in Florida, in 1964. Slim Aarons chose a viewpoint above the pond, so that the garden runs back in a single line, from water lilies through the watercourse to the gate. The visitors fill the edges and leave the middle free. That empty axis is what makes the image legible, despite the hundreds of figures around it.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- USA
- City
- Palm Beach
- Year
- 1964
- Reference
- 56929790
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
