Great Harbour Cay
Slim Aarons · 1973
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About this work
Great Harbour Cay, Bahamas 1973
From high on the hill you follow a long white beach as it curves away toward the horizon, with a dense row of palms on the landward side. Thatched parasols stand beneath the palms. On the sand a single person walks along the waterline, and just offshore a small boat with a red-and-white striped sail crosses the pale blue water.
The caption speaks of a horseshoe-shaped beach on Great Harbour Cay, Bahamas, in March 1973. The picture rests on the line of the shore itself: a soft curve running from the lower left corner to the upper right and dividing the frame into green, white and blue. The walker and the striped sail are tiny, and that is exactly why they give the scale of the bay.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- Bahamas
- Area
- Caribbean
- Year
- 1973
- Reference
- 95738204
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
