Bahamanian Hotel
Slim Aarons · 1973
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About this work
Bahamanian Hotel, Great Harbour Cay 1973
Through the fronds of a palm in the foreground you look down on a hotel on the coast. A white tower with a pointed roof rises above the treetops; at its foot lie a swimming pool, terraces with loungers and a few guests. On the left the sea runs from turquoise to dark blue, on the right lawn and garden walls slope down to the water.
In March 1973 Slim Aarons photographed a hotel on the coast of Great Harbour Cay, in the Bahamas. He kept the palm leaves at the top of the frame, large and dark, like a frame that makes the hotel small. The building thus seems half hidden in the greenery, and you look at it as a guest would from a higher terrace: from a distance, with the sea beside it.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- Bahamas
- Area
- Caribbean
- Year
- 1973
- Reference
- 95738278
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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