Jamaica Sea Sailing
Slim Aarons · 1953
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About this work
Jamaica Sea Sailing, 1953
A sailboat lies hard over in the wind, mainsail and jib pulled taut, the bow cutting through choppy water. Two men are on deck, one wearing a hat. A name is painted on the transom at the stern. Behind them only a flat horizon and a large, even sky that fills almost the whole upper half of the picture.
In 1953 two men sailed their yacht Eel II in Jamaica. In black and white it becomes a study in shades of gray: the white sail against the pale gray sky, the dark hull against the water. Aarons sets the boat low in the square and lets the mast jab diagonally toward the upper left, into the empty space. That one slanting line carries the whole photograph; you feel the tilt of the deck without seeing the wind.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- Jamaica
- Area
- Caribbean
- Year
- 1953
- Reference
- 3245100
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
