Donald Leas
Slim Aarons · 1968
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About this work
Donald Leas, Palm Beach 1968
A black Rolls-Royce stands on the grass in the driveway, nose toward the camera. On the left a man in a turquoise blazer, pink tie, flowered trousers and straw hat leans against the fender; on the right stands a woman in a long orange dress with large flowers. Two small dogs sit on the hood, one black and one white. Behind them rise the white columns of a house.
Donald Leas and his wife posed in April 1968 with their Rolls-Royce and their two dogs in front of the Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, Florida. Aarons builds the image symmetrically: the car in the middle, the couple on either side, the museum's row of columns as backdrop. Within that strict layout the colors do the work. The flower prints on him and her are as loud as the white facade is quiet.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- USA
- City
- Palm Beach
- Year
- 1968
- Reference
- 3203127
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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