Carl Sandburg
Slim Aarons · 1960
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About this work
Carl Sandburg, Chicago 1960
Beneath an enormous painting of a young man swinging a maul, an older man with white hair and glasses sits at a small wooden desk. He reads a sheet of paper, legs crossed, on a plain chair. The canvas in a gold frame fills almost the whole wall; on the left papers hang in a display case, on the right a door opens onto the next room.
Carl Sandburg, American poet and biographer of Abraham Lincoln, sat in 1960 at a desk that had belonged to Lincoln, beneath the portrait of the President as the 'rail-splitter', in the museum of the Chicago Historical Society. The image appeared in A Wonderful Time. Aarons lets the painting fill most of the frame. The writer sits small in the corner, at the foot of his subject, and that single difference in scale tells the story.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- USA
- City
- Chicago
- Year
- 1960
- Reference
- 3165683
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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