Ricardo Bolliger
Slim Aarons · 1989
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About this work
Ricardo Bolliger, Capri 1989
A young man in a white shirt and light green trousers sits laughing on a bench with flowered cushions, under a large white parasol. In front of him a second man, bare-chested, leans on the tiled edge of a dark blue pool, his back to the camera. At right someone in a straw hat lies reading in a hammock. Beyond the fence a white rock rises from the haze.
Ricardo Bolliger sat beside a swimming pool on Capri in September 1989; a man leaned against the edge and a woman lay reading in a hammock at right. Aarons spreads the picture across three people who are each doing something different: talking, hanging in the water, reading. The rock in the distance stands exactly between parasol and tree, like a fourth figure looking on. That calm distribution makes it a day when nothing has to happen.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- Italy
- City
- Capri
- Year
- 1989
- Reference
- 155762923
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
