Paradise Island
Slim Aarons · 1968
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About this work
Paradise Island, May 1968
From behind a bush of orange-pink bougainvillea, a white stone path runs straight across a lawn to a swimming pool. A woman in a light dress stands there, small in the center of the frame. White parasols surround the pool; behind it, terraces with steps climb to a structure at the top. White cottages under palms stand left and right.
The Versailles Gardens and the French Cloister at the Ocean Club on Paradise Island, opposite Nassau in the Bahamas, May 1968. The whole image hangs on one symmetrical axis: path, pool, steps and the structure at the top lie on a straight line. Aarons breaks that severity by standing behind the flowers, so that the foreground is messy and alive and the landscaped garden behind it looks all the more ordered.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- Bahamas
- Area
- Caribbean
- City
- Nassau
- Year
- 1968
- Reference
- 146310203
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
