Cortina d'Ampezzo
Slim Aarons · 1962
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About this work
Cortina d'Ampezzo, February 1962
A skier in a red hat sits on a single chairlift going diagonally up the mountain, skis dangling beneath him. Two more chairs follow behind him. On the white slope below a few small figures ski down, and beyond rises a row of jagged, partly snow-covered rock peaks under a dark blue sky.
In February 1962 Slim Aarons photographed a chairlift going up the mountain at Cortina d'Ampezzo. Aarons lets the lift run along the right edge of the picture and gives the middle to the snow and the rocks. That makes the skier on his chair a yardstick: only through him do you see how steep the slope is and how far away the peaks still lie. The slanting light picks out every ridge in the snow.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- Italy
- City
- Cortina d'Ampezzo
- Year
- 1962
- Reference
- 56454438
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
