Jack And GeeGee Entz
Slim Aarons · 1983
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About this work
Jack And GeeGee Entz, Villa d'Este circa 1983
A tunnel of iron arches, overgrown with greenery and roses, spans a stone staircase. On the steps a man and a woman, each holding a tennis racket, turn toward the camera. He wears a white polo shirt, white shorts and striped socks; she wears a red-and-white striped jacket with matching shorts. Behind them the staircase climbs on, into the greenery.
Jack and GeeGee Entz stood around 1983 beneath the rose-covered steps leading to the tennis courts of the Villa d'Este in Cernobbio, near Lake Como. The arches do the work of a frame: they recede, growing smaller, and draw the eye up over the steps. The couple stands just below the center, and their rackets almost touch in the narrow space between them.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- Italy
- Year
- 1983
- Reference
- 155761323
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
