Porto Ercole Harbour
Slim Aarons · 1966
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About this work
Porto Ercole Harbour, Tuscany, September 1966
Houses in pink, ochre and white pile up against a dark hill, one row of roofs above the next. Laundry hangs from the balconies, the shutters stand open or closed. Cars are parked along the quay, and on the still water of the harbor rowboats and small motorboats lie scattered, each with its own shadow.
Slim Aarons took this picture of the harbor of Porto Ercole, in Tuscany, in September 1966. There is no sky and no horizon: the frame is filled entirely with facades. That turns the village almost into a pattern of windows, shutters and rooflines, and it is the small boats at the bottom that make it a place where people live and work again.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- Italy
- City
- Porto Ercole
- Year
- 1966
- Reference
- 56454459
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
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