Fishing Boats
Slim Aarons · 1952
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About this work
Fishing Boats, Mexico 1952
A row of wooden rowboats lies at an angle on the sand, the paint in blue, red and white peeling. On the left, fishing nets hang drying from poles. In the middle of the frame stands a sign reading Playa exclusiva para bañistas. A few people walk along the surf, and behind the beach palms, thatched roofs and mountains rise in the haze.
Fishing nets and boats on the shore in Mexico, in 1952. Slim Aarons put the camera low beside the nearest boat, so that the hull fills the whole lower part and the row behind it grows steadily smaller. That repetition draws the eye along the coast to the mountains. The sign for bathers stands rather lost among them; the beach still belongs to the fishermen here.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- Mexico
- Year
- 1952
- Reference
- 554352255
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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