Marbles Championship
Slim Aarons · 1948
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About this work
Marbles Championship, New York 1948
A row of boys crouches behind a white chalk line, each with a marble between thumb and forefinger, ready to shoot. Most grin at the camera, two stare ahead in concentration. Behind them sits an audience of men in hats and shirts on benches, with a few children among them. The ground is bare and dusty.
In 1948 boys took part in a marbles championship in Central Park, New York City, and Slim Aarons photographed them at the line. He crouches low, almost at the participants' height, so that the row of hands close to the line forms the foreground. The audience on the benches is sharp but stays background. Tension and fun run together: one stares at his target, another is already laughing.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- USA
- City
- New York
- Year
- 1948
- Reference
- 1158180856
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
