Capri Hotel
Slim Aarons · 1989
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About this work
Capri Hotel, Capri 1989
A man in a white shirt sits at a small table under a large white parasol, a carafe of red drink in front of him and a brown dog by his knee. On the edge of the blue-tiled pool a swimmer leans with his back to us. At right someone in a straw hat lies reading in a hammock; beyond the railing a bare white rock rises from the sea.
Richard Bolliger, owner of Bolliger Transport Worldwide, was on vacation on Capri in September 1989. The caption does not say which figure he is. The image is built in layers: water, terrace, railing and then the rock, fitted exactly between parasol and tree trunk. Everyone is doing something different, swimming, sitting, reading, and none of them looks at the view the frame is built around.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- Italy
- City
- Capri
- Year
- 1989
- Reference
- 56475768
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
