Scone Madam ?
Slim Aarons · 1952
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About this work
Scone Madam ?, Beverly Hills 1952
From a height you look down on a round pool in a garden, with tall trees around it and a white pool house on the far side. Guests sit on chairs and cushions around the water; in the middle stands a small table with flowers and tableware. A man in a white jacket hands something over, another stands with his hands behind his back. Two white fringed parasols stand open.
In 1952 the interior decorator James Pendleton spent a quiet Sunday afternoon with his wife and guests beside the pool of the Beverly Hills house where they had lived for eight years. Among those having tea were Leonard Stanley and the couples Riley and Henry. The wide, high viewpoint turns the garden into a stage: the pool as the centerpiece, the guests in a ring around it, the steps in the foreground as the entrance.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- USA
- City
- Beverly Hills
- Year
- 1952
- Reference
- 3088770
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
