Sirio Maccioni
Slim Aarons · 1981
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About this work
Sirio Maccioni, New York 1981
A man in a blue-gray jacket lies stretched across a set table, his head on his hand, grinning at the camera. Behind him a row of women sit along the wall, some raising a glass of champagne. Above them hangs a painted panel with a court scene, between two wall lights shaped like flowering branches. Empty chairs with striped upholstery stand in front.
Restaurateur Sirio Maccioni lay stretched out across a table in Le Cirque in New York in 1981, with a row of society women behind him. Slim Aarons literally lets the restaurateur take over the table. That one reclining figure cutting across the neat row turns a group photo into a joke. The women laugh or look his way, while he rests his head in his hand as if the table were a sofa.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- USA
- City
- New York
- Year
- 1981
- Reference
- 3165163
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
