The Buchanans
Slim Aarons · 1965
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About this work
The Buchanans, Newport 1965
Under a green awning a woman with blond hair pinned up sits laughing, a gray poodle held close against her. Beside her stands a man in a checked jacket with sunglasses, tie and a white pocket square; under his arm he carries a reddish-brown long-haired dachshund, its red leash hanging down in a loop. Both dogs look out of the frame to the left.
Wiley T. Buchanan Jr. was a diplomat and, in the Eisenhower years, Chief of Protocol in Washington; here he stood in 1965 with Ruth Elizabeth Hale Buchanan at the Newport Casino in Rhode Island. The image appeared in A Wonderful Time. What carries it is the doubling: two people, two dogs, each pair in a tone of its own. His checks against her soft blue cardigan, the dark poodle against the russet dachshund.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- USA
- City
- Newport
- Year
- 1965
- Reference
- 3088861
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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