Venetian Play
Slim Aarons · 1952
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About this work
Venetian Play, Venice 1952
Beneath a gallery with heavy carved capitals, a man in a white suit stands with one foot on a wooden crate and looks up at two actors in costume on a wooden stage. Around them stand technicians, a film camera on a tripod on the left, a large lamp on the right. Through the arches you see facades and a tower, all in black and white and in strong backlight.
In 1952 Orson Welles directed Othello on location in Venice, and Slim Aarons photographed the shoot. The image lines up the relationships on a film set: the director slightly lower, the actors higher on their planks, the crew around them. What gives the picture its tension is that the old columns run straight through it. The setting is real, and the lamps and cables are part of it for the moment.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- Italy
- City
- Venice
- Year
- 1952
- Reference
- 3137803
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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