Capote's House
Slim Aarons · 1970
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About this work
Capote's House, Palm Springs 1970
On an empty street lined with tall fan palms stands a low house trimmed in black and white like half-timbering, with small red chimneys shaped like pagoda roofs. A bicycle stands under the carport, beside it a small garden with white stones and flowers. On the right a second white house begins, with a low wall of ornamental stone; behind everything lie blue-gray mountains under a pale sky.
The house of the American writer Truman Capote in Palm Springs, California, in January 1970. No one is visible: no writer, no guests. Aarons lets the house speak through the palms in front of it, two straight trunks that divide the frame in three and reach higher than anything built. Between those trunks the bungalow with its pagoda turrets looks almost like a toy house at the foot of the mountains.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- USA
- City
- Palm Springs
- Year
- 1970
- Reference
- 74319209
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
