Family Chair
Slim Aarons · 1968
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About this work
Family Chair, Palm Beach 1968
A little girl in a white dress and white socks sits in the middle of a large gilded throne chair, which stands on the strip of grass between two paths. The backrest is upholstered in a flower pattern in red, green and cream; her feet dangle far above the ground. Behind her stands a white house with tall columns, balconies and arched windows.
Elizabeth Matthews, a descendant of H. M. Flagler, co-founder of Palm Beach, sat in April 1968 in the favorite chair of her great-grandfather, in front of the family mansion that is now the Flagler Museum. Aarons places the chair exactly on the axis of the path and the portico behind it. Everything in the picture leads to her, the paths, the columns, the strip of grass, and that is exactly why you notice how small she is in that seat.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- USA
- City
- Palm Beach
- Year
- 1968
- Reference
- 3095004
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
