Nassau Sailing
Slim Aarons · 1971
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About this work
Nassau Sailing, March 1971
A fleet of sailing yachts passes along the horizon, dozens of white sails on dark blue water. In front of them lies a low stone pier with a white lighthouse. In the foreground, in the paler turquoise of the shallows, two motorboats draw a white line through the water and a red buoy floats. Over everything hangs a broad sky with light cumulus clouds.
A flotilla of yachts at Nassau in the Bahamas, March 1971. Aarons keeps his distance and lets the sky take up more than half of the picture. The sails thereby become a row of white dots along the horizon, a pattern that repeats across the full width. The lighthouse stands in the middle of it as the one vertical point that holds the eye. The wake of the motorboats runs parallel to that row and pulls the picture forward.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- Bahamas
- Area
- Caribbean
- City
- Nassau
- Year
- 1971
- Reference
- 74155635
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
