Swimming In The Bahamas
Slim Aarons · 1959
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About this work
Swimming In The Bahamas, 1959
Seen from above, four people swim through clear turquoise water, their bodies half under the surface and broken up by the light. At the top a man in red trunks, below him one in yellow, then a woman in a blue swimsuit, and at the bottom a fourth figure in the dark. White sparks of sun lie all over the water.
A pool in Nassau on New Providence, 1959. Aarons looks straight down and keeps the edge of the pool out of the frame, so nothing is left but water and bodies. Red, yellow and blue float like three daubs of paint on the turquoise. The water distorts everything: arms and legs break off where they meet the surface, and that is exactly what makes the picture.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- Bahamas
- Area
- Caribbean
- City
- Nassau
- Year
- 1959
- Reference
- 76859840
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
