Mies In Chicago
Slim Aarons · 1960
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About this work
Mies In Chicago, circa 1960
On a rooftop terrace high above the city stands an older man in a dark suit, wearing a hat, a striped tie and a white pocket square, one hand on a railing of black mesh, the other on a walking stick. Behind him two identical towers with a tight grid of windows rise out of the haze, and beyond them water that merges unnoticed into the sky.
Mies van der Rohe, the German-born American architect, stood on the roof of a skyscraper in Chicago around 1960. Slim Aarons places him not in front of the towers but beside them, at the same height: the man and the buildings share one picture plane. His dark, upright silhouette repeats the vertical lines of the facades, and the mesh of the railing in the foreground echoes the windows behind it.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- USA
- Area
- Illinois
- City
- Chicago
- Year
- 1960
- Reference
- 3165675
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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