Food For The Stars
Slim Aarons · 1954
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About this work
Food For The Stars, Beverly Hills 1954
A man in a navy polo shirt ladles from a large orange casserole onto the plate that a smiling red-haired woman holds out to him. She wears black, with a brooch at the neck and blue earrings. Behind them a woman in a white blouse holds a bottle among burning candles; at the edges other guests look on.
Johnny Green, head of music at the MGM studios, served a casserole to the actress Greer Garson in 1954, at one of his parties in Beverly Hills. Aarons shows how the roles briefly reverse: the man from the studio does the serving, the star waits with her plate. The gesture between them, the ladle just above the plate, sits exactly in the middle of the photograph and holds everything together.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- USA
- City
- Beverly Hills
- Year
- 1954
- Reference
- 3165222
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
