Paraglider
Slim Aarons · 1968
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About this work
Paraglider, 1968
A young fair-haired woman in a pale pink bikini stands on a wooden jetty in a parachute harness, both hands on the straps, laughing. Behind her a large white parachute with a red panel fills the whole frame. Two men hold up the edges of the canopy, one on the left standing on a board in the water. Beyond, the bay, the hills and a hard blue sky.
Acapulco, 1968. The caption says she is preparing to go paragliding, and the picture shows the moment before: the canopy already full, the straps taut, her feet still on the boards. Aarons places her dead centre in the circle of the parachute, which turns the canopy into a halo. The two helpers stand by like extras.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- Mexico
- Area
- Mexican Pacific coast
- City
- Acapulco
- Year
- 1968
- Reference
- 2665187
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
