Gaëtan de Rosnay
Slim Aarons · 1981
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About this work
Gaëtan de Rosnay, 1981
The painter stands in his studio, arm stretched out towards a large canvas on the easel, a blue-green scene full of figures. He wears a beige sweater with a red scarf and holds brushes in his other hand. Framed canvases hang around him to the ceiling; on the left a wooden stair with a white bust. Purple cloths cover the floor.
Klosters, 1981. Gaëtan de Rosnay is showing his work, and Aarons lets him do it literally: the outstretched arm presents the canvas as though an audience were standing there. The room is fuller than the painting itself — frames, books, pots, cloths — so the painter both disappears into the middle of it and stands out through his pale sweater.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- Switzerland
- Area
- Graubünden
- City
- Klosters
- Year
- 1981
- Reference
- 1496422858
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
