Backgammon In Haiti
Slim Aarons · 1975
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About this work
Backgammon In Haiti, January 1975
Close up and slightly from above: a woman in a red bikini sits cross-legged behind a backgammon board. Her face is out of frame. One hand, with a turquoise ring, slides a cream-colored disc across the board; the other holds a red dice cup, with a narrow gold ring on the finger. The board has points in black, silver and brown.
The caption describes a close-up of a woman playing backgammon in Haiti, in January 1975. Slim Aarons made the photograph. By leaving out the face, the photograph becomes an image of hands and color: the red bikini, the red cup, and the turquoise ring as the only cool accent. The focus lies exactly on the hand making the move. The game is the subject, not the player.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- Haiti
- Year
- 1975
- Reference
- 114270464
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
