Equestrian Entrance
Slim Aarons · 1957
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About this work
Equestrian Entrance, Normandy 1957
A woman on horseback rides through a wrought-iron gate, wearing a bowler hat and a long gray riding skirt that falls over the flank of the horse. The horse, a chestnut with white socks, lifts a foreleg. Two dogs, one sitting and one lying, are on the gravel path. Beyond the gate, with its curling ironwork and finials, stands a chateau of brick and natural stone under a pale sky.
Madame de la Haye-Jousselin was photographed in 1957 at the gate of her chateau in Normandy. The image is built as a series of thresholds: first the dogs, then the rider, then the gate, then the house. The gate frames her exactly, so that she seems to be leaving and coming home at once. The raised leg of the horse is the only thing that moves in an otherwise strictly symmetrical composition.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- France
- Year
- 1957
- Reference
- 3165297
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
