Ocean Club
Slim Aarons · 1968
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About this work
Ocean Club, Nassau 1968
Through a haze of orange and pink blossom you look across a blue swimming pool to grass terraces with steps rising to a row of white arches on the hilltop. White parasols and garden chairs stand around the water. A waiter in a white jacket and black trousers walks along the edge; a few guests sit at small tables, one is swimming.
In May 1968 Slim Aarons photographed the Versailles Gardens of the Ocean Club in Nassau, where terraces with steps rise from the swimming pool to a fourteenth-century French cloister. The picture works through its layers: first the flowers, soft and close, then the water, then the terraces and, far in the back, the arches. This leads your eye up the hill step by step.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- Bahamas
- Year
- 1968
- Reference
- 3089556
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
