Porto Ercole
Slim Aarons · 1967
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About this work
Porto Ercole, August 1967
From a high vantage point you look across a harbor full of boats on still, dark blue water. In front lie rowboats in red, green, white and blue, behind them sailboats, motor yachts and a green-and-white fishing boat with an orange sail. Across the water the houses of the village rise, and on the right a bare hill climbs to a fortress wall at the top.
Boats in the harbor of Porto Ercole, in Tuscany, in August 1967. Slim Aarons looks down from above and lets the water fill almost the whole picture. That turns the boats into separate signs on a blue plane. You read the picture from bottom to top: first the small dinghies, then the yachts in the middle, and only last the village against the hill.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- Italy
- City
- Porto Ercole
- Year
- 1967
- Reference
- 56454495
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
