Slim Aarons: Women

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He still had the apple cheeks that harkened back to his days as a “simple New Hampshire farm boy,” as he liked to say. Slim Aarons: Style ,” written by Shawn Waldron and Kate Betts, and published by Abrams Books, is available now. Working in close partnership with the prestigious Getty Images Archive and Slim Aarons Estate, we offer officially certified prints from this beautiful collection. He also came across to those he photographed as being one of them: a sophisticate, a man of the world, and, if pressed, a gentile.

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Especially in light of the state the world is currently in, it's a delight to have such a wonderful remembrance of days gone by, and of course a glimpse into the lives of these glamorous beings. Though he was a genuine companion to the likes of Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart, his way of life was much more modest. As Slim’s longtime friend and editor Frank Zachary observed, ‘Slim managed to get the horse to raise his hoof.I have seen many of these photos over the years in various publications or references, but to have them all gathered in one location was spectacular! I reassured her, said all you had to do was think about the nicest possible thing that could happen to you – but think about it with your eyes, and let the rest of your face do what it wanted. Friend is the author of Watching the World Change: The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11 (2006); The Naughty Nineties (2017) , about the culture wars of the 1990s; and two books on the essence of human existence—*The Meaning. In California, he shot his most praised photo, Kings of Hollywood, a 1957 New's Year's Eve photograph depicting Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper, and James Stewart relaxing at a bar in full formal wear.

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I’m going to have fun photographing attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places, and maybe take some attractive photographs as well. Alfred Hitchcock's film , Rear Window (1954) , whose main character is a photographer played by Jimmy Stewart, is set in an apartment reputed to be based on Aarons' apartment. These are the exceptions, however; throughout, Aarons’s portraits attest wholeheartedly to his intention to make the good life look even better, while also telling us as much about the person behind the camera as the people in front. She and Slim went to the set of The Seven Year Itch and Marilyn offered to lend her car to the couple. High-fliers, including American lawyer and businessman Alexander Cochrane Cushing, enjoy cocktails atop the KT-22 peak in Squaw Valley, California, in 1961.Slim photographed swank après-ski scenes in Squaw Valley and the photogenic patrons at Il Pellicano, but more than that, he was granted rarified access into private spaces of those whose fame was their fortune or for whom entitlement was a birthright—C.

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That his half century of work continues to captivate successive generations of admirers—and that this is the fifth book published of his photography—reveals not only a yearning for an irretrievable time gone by but also a universal fascination with the seeming forbidden worlds of wealth and privilege. He would say over and over, ‘I only use real people in their own clothes, in their own jewelry, and they become fashion. Herein lies what Waldron described as the difference between fashion and style – between the transient and the timeless.He died in 2006—he would be 104 right now—but if he were alive, and if we tried to explain this to him, how his pictures have a life all over the world, by all sorts of demographics, it would be beyond,” says Mary. Not because Slim painted a partly fictional picture of his youth, but because of the loneliness it must have instilled in him. His sunny portraits of postwar affluence captured the habits and habitats of the elite—and of the wider stylish class, whose socialites commingled with bohemians and trendsetters. Aarons was born to Yiddish-speaking immigrants who had lived in a tenement on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.