Elizabeth Campbell Parks
Slim Aarons · 1971
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About this work
Elizabeth Campbell Parks, 1971
On a lawn a woman stands in a long small-patterned dress with an embroidered hem, one hand on her hip, head thrown back and mouth wide open. Beside her a small girl in a checked sundress holds a croquet mallet, bent over the ball at the hoops. Behind them a white clapboard wall, a fence and two children in the distance.
Westchester County, 1971. Elizabeth Campbell Parks with Leslie, her daughter with the photographer and filmmaker Gordon Parks. Two attitudes side by side: the mother entirely in movement, the child entirely fixed on a single ball. Aarons keeps it in black and white and frames upright, so the long dress fills the picture top to bottom and the game fits in underneath.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- USA
- Year
- 1971
- Reference
- 1496421875
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
