Nassau Speed Week
Slim Aarons · 1963
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About this work
Nassau Speed Week, Bahamas 1963
In front of a tall grandstand with a Firestone scoreboard and a yellow Dunlop ad, three cars stand ready: a light green Beetle with the number 66 and two low, open race cars numbered 28 and 20. Mechanics and spectators walk around on the asphalt, and on the scoreboard men stand among the figures. The board reads Nassau, Oakes Course and Bahamas.
The caption speaks of participants in all kinds of vehicles at the 1963 Nassau Speed Week. That variety is literally visible: a family car beside two single-seaters, as if they were racing in the same class. Aarons keeps the camera low and square to the grandstand, so the advertising letters hang like a taut horizontal frame above the messy starting area. Order above and disorder below keep each other in balance.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- Bahamas
- Area
- Caribbean
- City
- Nassau
- Year
- 1963
- Reference
- 52433014
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
