Freeport Yachts
Slim Aarons · 1969
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About this work
Freeport Yachts, Bahamas 1969
From above you look across a row of white sailboats lying side by side in the marina, masts slanting into the frame. On the decks, young people in red and orange sweaters are busy with sails and life jackets; in front, three of them unroll a white sail with black numbers. Behind the jetties lie motor yachts, and there are a scooter and a bicycle.
According to the caption, these are yachts in a marina at Freeport in the Bahamas, in April 1969. The shot lives on repetition: boat after boat, mast after mast, each deck with its own little group at work. From the high, slanting viewpoint the hulls stack up like the steps of a staircase, and the eye climbs naturally from the sail in the foreground to the farthest jetty.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- Bahamas
- Area
- Caribbean
- Year
- 1969
- Reference
- 109857661
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
