Classy Courtesy Car
Slim Aarons · 1976
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About this work
Classy Courtesy Car, Antibes 1976
Before the steps of a pale hotel with blue-grey shutters and a slate mansard roof stands a white Rolls-Royce convertible, a man at the wheel. To its left stands a woman in a long light pink dress, to its right a woman in sunglasses in a patterned red-pink kaftan, one hand on the windshield. Behind them are a second car, a man in white and guests on the terrace.
Guests by the white Rolls-Royce convertible that the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc in Antibes kept ready for its visitors, August 1976. Aarons photographs the car head-on, with the grille directly beneath the central axis of the hotel. Building and car thus become one symmetrical whole, with the two women as side pieces. The large pine on the right balances the wing on the left and keeps that symmetry alive.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- France
- City
- Antibes
- Year
- 1976
- Reference
- 73309171
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
