Ready To Roll
Slim Aarons · 1955
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About this work
Ready To Roll, Hawaii 1955
High on a scaffold of tubes, a film crew stands against a sky full of cumulus clouds. A bare-chested man leans over a large film camera, and beside him stands someone in a white T-shirt. At the top of a ladder next to them a man in a hat and dark glasses sits watching. Everything is in black and white, the figures sharply outlined against the gray.
Director John Ford and his film crew set up a scene in 1955 for Mister Roberts, a Warner production, on location in Hawaii. Slim Aarons photographed the scaffold from below, so that nothing else is in the frame but construction and clouds. The crew seems to be working in the air, detached from any set. Precisely because the set itself stays out of frame, the photograph is about making film and not about the film.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- USA
- Year
- 1955
- Reference
- 3141960
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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