No Surrender
Slim Aarons · 1962
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About this work
No Surrender, 1962
A rider with a raised sword is painted on a brick gable, a name lettered above him in large capitals. A second inscription sits beside a hand emblem. Across the road surface, in large white capitals, stands No Surrender. In front of it about ten children turn hand in hand in a ring; a small boy sits on the kerb at the left, a dog beside him.
Belfast, 1962. The children are playing Ring a Ring o' Roses in the street, in front of a wall covered in lettering. Aarons places the game exactly between the words on the ground and the figure on the wall, so that you read both at once. Of everything in this group it stands furthest from the swimming pools: no villa, no guest, just a street and the people who live on it.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- Ireland
- Area
- Northern Ireland
- City
- Belfast
- Year
- 1962
- Reference
- 1496421645
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
