Bahamas Speed Week
Slim Aarons · 1963
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About this work
Bahamas Speed Week, Nassau 1963
A young woman in a checked summer dress leans over the hood of a red racing car with the number 149, on which a man in a striped sweater lies stretched out, sunglasses on, feet over the edge. Next to them a man in a light shirt studies something in his hands. In the background stand mechanics, spectators and other cars on the grounds.
In December 1963 Gordon Butler's Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray stood at the Bahamas Speed Week on the Oakes Course in Nassau, and Slim Aarons photographed what was going on around the car. The picture is not about speed but about waiting. The car has become a lounge, the woman bends forward for a conversation, and nobody seems in a hurry. The red of the paint holds the scene together.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- Bahamas
- Area
- Caribbean
- City
- Nassau
- Year
- 1963
- Reference
- 596326925
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
