SLIM AARONS | THE JET SET ARCHIVES

Posted on April 29, 2014 by Trace

S L I M  A A R O N S
THE JET SET ARCHIVES
‘Attractive people, doing attractive things,
 in attractive places’ 
 —  Slim Aarons mantra

Slim Aarons [called “Slim” because of his slender body] whose real name is George Allen Aarons, photographed many of the most famous faces of the late 20th century. With a list that includes The Kennedy’s, Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart,  Louis Armstrong & Princess Diana; and a career that spans more than five decades.

The Kaufmann Desert House Pool Party Palm Springs 1970

The Kaufmann House Palm Springs 1970

Hotel du Cap Eden Roc Pool
 Bookcover – Poolside With Slim Aarons

Lake Tahoe, Nevada

As a Jet Set photographer he dedicates himself to the depiction of Hollywood glamour and luxury. His subjects are exclusively celebrities, photographed in luxurious surroundings often around a swimming pool, in their own home.

On the Island of Capri,  Catherine Wilke 1980

Carlton Hotel Cannes (above two & below) 1958

El Venero Marbella Spain 1971

Pierre Vincent Marais holidays with friends
on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines 1989

Carmen Alvarez with Frank ‘Brandy’ Brandstetter
in a swimming pool at Acapulco playing a game of backgammon.

“I knew everyone,” he said in an interview with The Independent in 2002. “They would invite me to one of their parties because they knew I wouldn’t hurt them. I was one of them.”

St Tropez

Guests at Villa Nirvana

Cee Zee Guest 1955
Villa Artemis, Palm Beach Florida.

Slim Aarons’s photos define that legendary class known as the “beautiful people.”
Captured in a host of memorable portraits, across a vast geography of resorts, estates, palaces, elegant apartments, mansions, castles and other glamorous settings.

Athens,  a Penthouse pool
The Acropolis stands out in the background 1961

Colony Hotel Palm Beach Florida 1961

Mara Lane, The Sands, Las Vegas 1954

Images above & below from La Dolce Vita coffee table book

 Giacomo and Stefania Montegazza welcome guests
arriving by boat at their villa on Lake Como, 1983

Yacht Holiday

Mrs A Atwater Kent Jnr
crossing the road barefoot in the rain 1964

Bathers round a pool in Sotogrande,  Spain August 1975.

Lake Tahoe 1959

Photographer Slim Aarons slouches in a chair with the Acropolis
and its surroundings as a backdrop circa 1955

In his twenties he photographed the horrors of the Second World War. Years later Slim Aarons,  who lost his twin brother in the war and won a Purple Heart, said for The New York Times that combat had taught him that the only beach worth landing on was “decorated with beautiful, seminude girls tanning in a tranquil sun.”

Slim Aarons (1916–2006) is regarded as one of the most
influential magazine photographers of his generation.

He has published four books of his photos
which can be purchased here on Amazon
or at other good book shops.

“Three strands of pearls, makes a nice girl.”
– Slim Aarons

Sources :: Yellow Korner,  The Selvedge Yard,
The French Sampler
& Google images

 

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