Villa D'Este
Slim Aarons · 1983
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About this work
Villa D'Este, Lake Como 1983
A tall building with a red and ocher facade, two corner towers and rows of balconies with white chairs rises from the dark water. At its foot, beneath a series of arches, two white speedboats pass. Behind the building a wooded slope closes off the picture. The light is muted, and the colors stay deep and dark.
In June 1983 Slim Aarons photographed boats on the water by the Queen's Pavilion, the east wing of the Villa d'Este on Lake Como, in Cernobbio, Italy. He shot the facade straight on, from the water, so that it fills the whole frame like a flat wall. Against that severe symmetry the speedboats look small and fast, the only thing that moves.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- Italy
- Year
- 1983
- Reference
- 155762908
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
