Carriage Awaits
Slim Aarons · 1977
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About this work
Carriage Awaits, Bermuda 1977
In front of a salmon-pink house with white shutters, a white chimney and a stepped gable, a red carriage with large spoked wheels stands ready. An older woman in a blue-and-white printed blouse and white trousers leans against it under a pink parasol. On the left a man in a red jacket and white hat holds the brown horse by the head. The sky above is an even deep blue.
Mrs Kenneth Appleton Ives had herself photographed in 1977 in Bermuda with horse and carriage in front of her house. The picture lives on colors that seek each other out: the pink of the facade returns in the parasol, the red of the carriage in the jacket of the man by the horse. Aarons frames it head-on, so that house, carriage and people stand before the camera like an arranged tableau, with the white chimney as a vertical line above.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- Bermuda
- Area
- Caribbean
- Year
- 1977
- Reference
- 53438295
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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