Lord Of All I Survey
Slim Aarons · 1957
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Lord Of All I Survey, 1957
A small boy in a white shirt with ruffles, red knee breeches and white stockings holds a white pony by the bridle. They stand on a mown lawn. Behind them lies a round pond with a statue in the middle, and beyond it a large stone house, flanked by two tall hedges. A heavy gray sky hangs over everything.
In 1957 the seven-year-old Thomas Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron and 10th Baronet Hesketh, posed with his pony Blossom by the water in the grounds of Easton Neston House in Northamptonshire, his family's ancestral home. He was then the youngest peer in England. Slim Aarons makes the boy small and the house large, and that gives the title its irony: the lord of all he surveys barely reaches the head of his pony.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 1957
- Reference
- 3138049
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
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