Beverly Hills Pool Party
Slim Aarons · 1952
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About this work
Beverly Hills Pool Party, 1952
Around a round, jade-green swimming pool guests stand and sit in suits and dresses; a man in a white jacket stands behind a small table with flowers, two others stand at the edge with a glass. Two lilac parasols stand on either side. Behind them a pool house with open doors, tall trees and a gray sky. In the foreground a red mat lies between ivy beds.
A party by James Pendleton's pool in Beverly Hills, California, in 1952. The house was later bought by Hollywood director Robert Evans and appeared in the documentary The Kid Stays In The Picture. Slim Aarons chose a high, distant viewpoint, so that the pool forms the center around which the garden lies. The guests are small; the symmetry of parasols, beds and pool house carries the picture.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- USA
- City
- Beverly Hills
- Year
- 1952
- Reference
- 77442758
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
