Conca dei Marini
Slim Aarons · 1984
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About this work
Conca dei Marini, 1984
Looking straight down you see a bay with water so clear that the stones on the bottom can be counted. Six small boats in red, orange, white and blue drift on long ropes above the green. At the bottom lies a strip of pebble beach full of sunbathers on towels, with more boats pulled up on the shore.
A bay in Conca dei Marini on the Amalfi coast, August 1984. The photograph has no horizon and therefore no depth; the boats seem to hang in the air above their own shadows. Aarons lets color do the work, from dark green at the top through glass-clear turquoise to the light sand below. The beach with its people forms the bottom edge, like a plinth for the water.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- Italy
- Year
- 1984
- Reference
- 670809361
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
